英语词汇“circumlocutory”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

circumlocutory

释义

Adjective: circumlocutory `surkum'lókyu`toree [N. Amer], surkum'lókyooturee [Brit]

Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
"had a preference for circumlocutory rather than forthright expression"
- circumlocutious, periphrastic, ambagious [archaic]

See also: indirect

Encyclopedia: Circumlocutory

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