Synset:circumlocutious circumlocutory periphrastic
Examples:
- had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
- A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot
Antonyms:direct
Derivationally Related Form:periphrasiscircumlocutionambage
Inherited Hypernyms:circumlocutious
Similar to:indirect