circumlocutory Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- long-winded
- communicative
- garrulous
- diffuse
- windy
- logorrheic
- redundant
- conversational
- voluble
- loquacious
Weak:
Strongest:
- terse
- succinct
- pithy
- sententious
- brief
- epigrammatic
- terse
- aphoristic
- pithy
- crisp
- epigrammatic
- sententious
- crisp
- compact
- succinct
- short
- aphoristic
- brief
- short
- concise
- compact
- concise
Strong:
- laconic
- blunt
- summary
- abridged
- compendious
- condensed
- condensed
- abbreviated
- abridged
- laconic
- compendious
- summary
- abbreviated
- blunt
Weak:
circumlocutory Meaning
circumlocutory (s)
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
circumlocutory (a.)
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
circumlocutory Sentence Examples
- The suspect's circumlocutory answers only deepened the detective's suspicion.
- Instead of offering a direct apology, he resorted to a circumlocutory explanation full of excuses.
- The user manual's circumlocutory language made assembling the furniture a frustrating experience.
- The poet's love for metaphor often led to circumlocutory verses, obscuring the poem's meaning.
- To improve communication within the team, they emphasized using clear language and avoiding circumlocutory phrasing.
- The interviewee's circumlocutory responses wasted valuable time and left the interviewer unsatisfied.
- The fortune teller's pronouncements were deliberately circumlocutory, creating an air of mystery around their "predictions."
- The politician's speech, filled with circumlocutory statements, failed to address the public's concerns.
- The bureaucratic process often involves a circumlocutory maze of forms and procedures.
- Her circumlocutory writing style, though intended to sound eloquent, felt overly complicated and lacked clarity.
FAQs About the word circumlocutory
roundabout and unnecessarily wordyCharacterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
wordy, exaggerated,rambling, prolix, verbose, pleonastic, circuitous, talkative, long-winded, communicative
terse, succinct, pithy, sententious, brief, epigrammatic, terse, aphoristic, pithy, crisp
The suspect's circumlocutory answers only deepened the detective's suspicion.
Instead of offering a direct apology, he resorted to a circumlocutory explanation full of excuses.
The user manual's circumlocutory language made assembling the furniture a frustrating experience.
The poet's love for metaphor often led to circumlocutory verses, obscuring the poem's meaning.
