Circumlocutory [adjective]

Definition of Circumlocutory:

roundabout; unintended

Opposite/Antonyms of Circumlocutory:

● Straightforward

● Straight

● Direct


Sentence/Example of Circumlocutory:

To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.

It will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.

Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.

He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.

It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.

Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.

Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."

The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.

Another lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.

Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.