circumlocutory
/ˌsəːkəmˈlɒkjʊt(ə)ri
/adjective
Using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded: he has a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style...
- Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
- After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
- Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.
Synonyms
periphrastic, circuitous, indirect, roundabout;
tautological, repetitive, repetitious, diffuse, discursive, long-winded, prolix, verbose, wordy, rambling, wandering, tortuous
rare pleonastic, circumlocutionary, ambagious
Rhymes
- temple
- temple block
- Temple, Shirley
- tempo
- temporal
- temporal bone
- temporalis
- temporality
- temporal lobe
- temporally
- temporal power
- temporarily
- temporariness
- temporary
- temporary hardness
- temporary ley
- temporise
- temporization
- temporize
- temporizer
- temporomandibular joint
- tempo rubato
- Tempranillo
- temps levé
- tempt