Definition for Circuitous:

• deviating from a straight course; " a scenic but devious route"; " a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; " a roundabout route avoided rush- hour traffic"

Synonyms for Circuitous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • circuitous.
  •circular (adjective)
  • cycloid,
  • round,
  • circular,
  • spherical,
  • annular,
  • orbital,
  • rounded.
  •collateral (adjective)
  • more incident,
  • co-incident,
  • sub ordinate,
  • subbest,
  • de-pendent,
  • more accessory,
  • more confirmatory,
  • more appurtenant,
  • sub-ordinate,
  • most adjuvant,
  • more adjuvant,
  • most incident,
  • de pendent,
  • most adjunctive,
  • supporting,
  • most confirmatory,
  • co ordinate,
  • re-lated,
  • most accessory,
  • most satellite,
  • most appurtenant,
  • sub best,
  • co incident,
  • more satellite,
  • more under,
  • more adjunctive,
  • sub-best,
  • most under,
  • subber.
  •complex (adjective)
  • multiplex,
  • meandering,
  • puzzling,
  • inter-woven,
  • involute,
  • paradoxical,
  • knotted,
  • tangled,
  • mazy,
  • involved,
  • motley,
  • round-about.
  •convoluted (adjective)
  • labyrinthine,
  • twisting,
  • convoluted,
  • zigzag,
  • coiled,
  • turning,
  • whorled.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • Incurving,
  • warped,
  • Knurly,
  • mis-shapen,
  • Agee,
  • catawampus,
  • tilted,
  • Tortile,
  • out of shape,
  • screwy,
  • topsyturvy,
  • not straight.
  •deviating (adjective)
  • excursional,
  • Heteroclite,
  • excursionary,
  • aberrative.
  •devious (adjective)
  • more detouring,
  • most digressory,
  • most detouring,
  • mis leading,
  • de touring,
  • re moved,
  • more digressory,
  • mis-leading,
  • most digressing,
  • more confounding,
  • re-mote,
  • most confounding,
  • de-touring,
  • flexuous,
  • more digressing.
  •divergent (adjective)
  • Deviating.
  •going around, indirect (adjective)
  • back road,
  • long way,
  • complicated,
  • winding around,
  • ambagious,
  • by way of,
  • long way around.
  •rambling (adjective)
  • in-congruous,
  • dis jointed,
  • in-coherent,
  • dis-jointed,
  • in congruous.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • taking the long way.
  •serpentine (adjective)
  • most snakelike,
  • more snakelike,
  • most coiling,
  • twisting turning,
  • more coiling.
  •sinuous (adjective)
  • deviative,
  • Undulating.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • most vermiculate,
  • more vermiculate.
  •winding (adjective)
  • most gyrating,
  • wrigglier,
  • more gyrating,
  • wriggliest,
  • most spiraling,
  • more spiraling.

• n.

  •
  • conversational,
  • crisp,
  • clean,
  • declamatory,
  • economical,
  • discursive,
  • articulate,
  • chatty.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • learned,
  • fluent,
  • well-turned,
  • vague,
  • emphatic,
  • poetic,
  • elliptical,
  • incoherent,
  • lyrical,
  • Via,
  • idiomatic,
  • informal,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • literary,
  • overseas,
  • bumpy,
  • orotund,
  • epistolary,
  • transatlantic,
  • portentous.
  •
  • outward.
  •
  • rough,
  • formal.
  •
  • in.
  •
  • return.

Paraphrases for Circuitous:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    tortuous, roundabout.

Antonyms for Circuitous:

• adj.

  • going around, indirect
    in line, direct, straightforward, straight.
  • Other antonyms:
    honest, condensed, laconic, unconcealed, pithy, shortened, abridged, open, sententious, abbreviated, epigrammatic, undisguised.

Circuitous Sentence Examples:

• He took the counsel, therefore, of Francisco de Carbajal, who undertook to lead the forces by a circuitous, but safer, route.

• He returned to camp by a long and circuitous route, through Kadikoi, instead of by the direct Woronzoff road.