What is another word for circumlocution?
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What is circumlocution?
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Why do people use circumlocution?
Pronunciation:
[ sˌɜːkəmləkjˈuːʃən], [ sˌɜːkəmləkjˈuːʃən], [ s_ˌɜː_k_ə_m_l_ə_k_j_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]
Related words: speech patterns, spoken language, locution, need for circumlocution, wordy language
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Synonyms for Circumlocution:
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- evade,
- obliqueness,
- mince (your) words,
- intimate,
- skirt,
- convey,
- get at,
- parry,
- hedge,
- imply.
- beating around the bush,
- discursiveness,
- diffuseness,
- indirectness,
- verbal evasion,
- gassiness,
- prolixity,
- circumambages,
- pleonasm,
- wordiness,
- Verbality,
- roundabout.
- periphrasis,
- tautologies,
- copiosity,
- ramblings,
- wordage,
- long-windedness,
- euphemism,
- supererogation,
- Periphrases,
- Periphrase,
- Floridity,
- tautology,
- Purism,
- expansiveness,
- verbiage,
- floridness,
- over-abundance.
- co piosities,
- over-abundances,
- over abundance,
- co-piosity,
- co piosity,
- supererogations,
- pro-fusions,
- pro fusions,
- pro-fusion,
- super-abundances,
- super abundances,
- co-piosities,
- super-abundance,
- over abundances,
- copiosities.
- babbling,
- oration,
- speech,
- oral communication,
- jabbering,
- dialog,
- patter,
- discussion,
- speaking,
- voice,
- report,
- vocalization,
- chitchat,
- debate,
- spoken word,
- locution,
- dialect,
- chat,
- allocution,
- recitation,
- talking,
- elocution,
- chattering,
- remark,
- prattle.
Other synonyms:
• deviation • Other relevant words:- beat out,
- sphere,
- ebullience,
- number,
- crosspatch,
- vocalize,
- backup man,
- prolificacy,
- context,
- composition,
- spoken language,
- voluminous,
- bring,
- wish-wash,
- talking to,
- overmuchness,
- new world chat,
- scope,
- fineness,
- repeating,
- ring,
- recital,
- dispersal,
- err,
- paper,
- amaze,
- scroll,
- beatnik,
- reword,
- divagation,
- dodge,
- fragility,
- flummox,
- waver,
- make,
- mellowness,
- spiel,
- gabble,
- class period,
- plethora,
- get,
- play,
- scraps,
- nark,
- volute,
- coiling,
- coil,
- border,
- circumlocutory,
- abstruseness,
- nonsensical,
- sound,
- argue,
- falderol,
- pleasure trip,
- cozy,
- compass,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride,
- corrasion,
- wording,
- carrousel,
- replacement,
- elliptic,
- starter,
- lallation,
- eye socket,
- quiver,
- band,
- aberrance,
- mention,
- gossip,
- puzzle,
- stick,
- doll,
- digressive,
- torture,
- weave,
- dispersion,
- tucker,
- field,
- inculpate,
- fudge,
- access,
- tortuous,
- drum,
- crook,
- exercise,
- digress,
- entail,
- muddiness,
- grump,
- reliever,
- drift,
- away,
- reduplication,
- guise,
- gyrate,
- vanity,
- circuitous,
- cornucopia,
- prolongation,
- helix,
- complication,
- oviform,
- trace,
- hygienize,
- work,
- dianoetic,
- communicate,
- oval-shaped,
- internal,
- airiness,
- folderol,
- electric circuit,
- rotary,
- mystify,
- fill-in,
- simulation,
- excursive,
- wind,
- sour,
- rephrase,
- pulsate,
- nut,
- inexplicit,
- enfolding,
- overrefinement,
- contrition,
- scrunch up,
- argumentation,
- frill,
- kickshaw,
- detrition,
- rigamarole,
- ovoid,
- reach,
- sidelong,
- set,
- ovate,
- curl,
- grouch,
- shamble,
- devil,
- speechmaking,
- stupefy,
- prate,
- diversion,
- grandness,
- instalment,
- irritate,
- devious,
- turn of events,
- vagabond,
- comment,
- tittle-tattle,
- dissemination,
- treatment,
- bend,
- deputize,
- elude,
- nonplus,
- malaprop,
- choice,
- fogginess,
- bilk,
- cuss,
- rag,
- metre,
- tattle,
- crookedness,
- glass,
- zigzag,
- story,
- idle talk,
- deflection,
- continuation,
- engagement,
- report card,
- grandiosity,
- spit,
- tippytoe,
- codswallop,
- roll,
- rope,
- overplus,
- hesitate,
- athwart,
- part,
- applesauce,
- discretion,
- gabfest,
- trope,
- good turn,
- meth,
- become,
- cadence,
- revolve,
- murk,
- divergence,
- practice session,
- expansivity,
- interpreter,
- diplomacy,
- teemingness,
- seam,
- shell,
- celestial orbit,
- whorl,
- outfox,
- rile,
- curse word,
- humbleness,
- breeziness,
- give-and-take,
- orbital cavity,
- dress circle,
- thrum,
- oral presentation,
- vortex,
- sub,
- beckon,
- thread,
- chin music,
- wrench,
- ostentatiousness,
- enthusiasm,
- affluence,
- lot,
- gab,
- periphrastic,
- exchange,
- chin-wagging,
- swearword,
- contend,
- overmuch,
- wench,
- schmoose,
- course session,
- consideration,
- tippy,
- disk shape,
- second-stringer,
- empty words,
- bushed,
- prolate,
- routine,
- vocable,
- schmooze,
- duologue,
- natter,
- option,
- roam,
- wash up,
- flamboyance,
- feigning,
- deform,
- thump,
- setting,
- rick,
- bout,
- torque,
- helical,
- roach,
- gimcrack,
- block,
- mesmerism,
- expression,
- plow,
- hedge in,
- aberration,
- twaddle,
- jabber,
- effusiveness,
- tedium,
- rankness,
- claver,
- rhythm,
- flap,
- nonpayment,
- crisp,
- curse,
- public speaking,
- electrical circuit,
- curlicue,
- blab,
- outwit,
- nettle,
- egg-shaped,
- spoken communication,
- idiom,
- tramp,
- gyrus,
- heartbeat,
- express,
- methedrine,
- ringlet,
- pulse,
- ticktack,
- confabulation,
- finesse,
- fence,
- folderal,
- traffic circle,
- outsmart,
- parenthesis,
- ferment,
- argument,
- causerie,
- protraction,
- pretext,
- showiness,
- carry,
- delivery,
- tint,
- scuffle,
- repeat,
- tip,
- apart,
- reputation,
- outing,
- dainty,
- turn over,
- shuffling,
- spell,
- unquestioning,
- crumple,
- straggly,
- plough,
- tiresomeness,
- make-believe,
- reverse,
- pompousness,
- gravel,
- fetch,
- fruitcake,
- flex,
- input,
- pulsation,
- chatter,
- connote,
- divagate,
- cloudiness,
- twirl,
- tan,
- bird,
- crush,
- circumvent,
- adumbrate,
- junket,
- cover,
- insinuate,
- take,
- prevarication,
- conduct,
- involvement,
- speech communication,
- ersatz,
- forget me drug,
- oval,
- rove,
- ice,
- scrap,
- oath,
- language,
- rising prices,
- chicken feed,
- escape,
- refuse,
- doctrine of analogy,
- scramble,
- confidant,
- maunder,
- abrasion,
- meaninglessness,
- speech production,
- palaver,
- cranky,
- gibber,
- impart,
- news report,
- hot air,
- talkativeness,
- slightness,
- hygienise,
- rumple,
- scrunch,
- describe,
- deoxyephedrine,
- work over,
- dead,
- hypnotism,
- moving ridge,
- relief,
- pose,
- blabber,
- grinding,
- go,
- account,
- turbinate,
- sprawling,
- exponentiation,
- phraseology,
- cranial orbit,
- excess,
- grow,
- step in,
- hedgerow,
- written report,
- all in,
- magnification,
- saying,
- change by reversal,
- musical rhythm,
- range,
- sprinkle,
- shabu,
- ambagious,
- deflect,
- utility,
- old world chat,
- wander,
- proffer,
- point out,
- flourish,
- isolated,
- ticktock,
- vox,
- line,
- twisty,
- chin wag,
- round,
- dodging,
- fable,
- food waste,
- sanitise,
- jaw,
- rolling,
- cast,
- crank up,
- chin-wag,
- spin,
- swirl,
- reading,
- circumlocution,
- rophy,
- tick,
- chalk,
- channel,
- distortion,
- jaunt,
- area,
- duck,
- daintiness,
- change state,
- call on,
- prolixness,
- apostasy,
- tucker out,
- spokesperson,
- theme,
- dissembling,
- perplex,
- pitter-patter,
- perimeter,
- transmit,
- versed,
- drivel,
- wrick,
- self-love,
- baffle,
- vanquish,
- choice of words,
- empty talk,
- crease,
- reconditeness,
- participation,
- swearing,
- sideways,
- spatter,
- exhaust,
- consider,
- trash,
- undulate,
- evasiveness,
- beat up,
- study,
- goody,
- talk,
- interchange,
- release,
- methamphetamine,
- shambling,
- nut case,
- annoy,
- put off,
- trumpery,
- deflexion,
- crackpot,
- chin wagging,
- words,
- sprain,
- swan,
- utterance,
- bit,
- ruckle,
- by,
- abundance,
- environ,
- disputation,
- mean,
- hint,
- articulation,
- frozen metaphor,
- dialogue,
- complicatedness,
- voice communication,
- wafture,
- apologue,
- tender,
- visit,
- fertility,
- public debate,
- ruffle,
- get to,
- tour,
- departure,
- brandish,
- bother,
- arena,
- discreetness,
- counterpunch,
- overreach,
- counter,
- stand in,
- incriminate,
- surround,
- hyperbole,
- magniloquence,
- actor's line,
- orb,
- involve,
- ambit,
- write up,
- ostentation,
- vex,
- blether,
- deputise,
- difference,
- sequence,
- line of gab,
- inner,
- embroidery,
- pretension,
- act,
- pretentiousness,
- voluted,
- lecture,
- twist,
- knottiness,
- bewilder,
- elaborateness,
- hokum,
- whorled,
- meter,
- mix,
- merry-go-round,
- nimiety,
- sashay,
- proposition,
- informal,
- pound,
- racing circuit,
- puffiness,
- corkscrew,
- confab,
- hedging,
- bunk,
- emblem,
- extension,
- dumbfound,
- annulus,
- chick,
- observe,
- contortion,
- electron orbit,
- tripe,
- straining,
- whirl,
- figure,
- move around,
- babble,
- notice,
- vocalise,
- practice,
- dame,
- whirligig,
- encircle,
- accent,
- chafe,
- alternate,
- confabulate,
- magnificence,
- representative,
- discourse,
- suggest,
- straggling,
- backup,
- replace,
- private,
- rounding error,
- small talk,
- phrasing,
- measure,
- lap,
- fill in,
- screwball,
- impressiveness,
- knowledgeable,
- embarrassment,
- elaboration,
- nonsensicality,
- expedition,
- prompting,
- chit chat,
- clack,
- stand-in,
- reserve,
- condition,
- piffle,
- splashiness,
- shoot the breeze,
- address,
- churl,
- installment,
- chew the fat,
- pretending,
- note,
- unimportance,
- wrinkle,
- wandering,
- ornateness,
- chit-chat,
- cushioning,
- chaffer,
- aslant,
- ornamentation,
- carousel,
- surplus,
- fruitfulness,
- drill,
- manner of speaking,
- treat,
- moot,
- ramble,
- phonation,
- deliberate,
- aberrancy,
- fog,
- contriteness,
- trounce,
- fullness,
- logomania,
- word,
- furrow,
- vocalisation,
- gimcrackery,
- sexual,
- diction,
- surfeit,
- image,
- domain.
- expletive,
- meander,
- circumference,
- tortuosity,
- redundance,
- circumambience,
- turn,
- rambling,
- Annulling,
- orbit,
- exuberance,
- Crinkling,
- garrulousness,
- equivocation,
- spiraling,
- deviation,
- cancellation,
- Ambages,
- redundancy,
- garrulity,
- circumnavigation,
- Tortility,
- circumvolution,
- verbosity,
- involution,
- tediousness,
- Circumambiency,
- Anfractuosity,
- crinkle,
- sinuosity,
- Circumflexion,
- deviancy,
- turning,
- diffusion,
- episode,
- Battology,
- Roundaboutness,
- circumstance,
- meandering,
- gobbledegook,
- richness,
- windiness,
- rounding,
- Circumbendibus,
- excursion,
- tergiversation,
- circummigration,
- orbiting,
- waving,
- sinuousness,
- circulation,
- gyre,
- Intorsion,
- gyring,
- circuitry,
- ambage,
- undulation,
- malapropism,
- wave,
- wheeling,
- Circumambulation,
- winding,
- verboseness,
- metaphor,
- deviousness,
- torsion,
- indirection,
- twisting,
- evasion,
- convolution,
- Sinuation,
- circularity,
- Circuition,
- excursus,
- circling,
- simile,
- shuffle,
- surplusage,
- figure of speech,
- Perissology,
- slinkiness,
- spiral,
- logorrhea,
- snakiness,
- deviance,
- circuitousness,
- tortuousness,
- Verbalism,
- circle,
- circuit.
How to use "Circumlocution" in context?
Generally speaking, a circumlocution is a concise and elegant way of saying something. In speech, circumlocutions can be as simple as making demonstrative motions with one's hands or as complex as using multi-word phrases to communicate same idea. In writing, circumlocutions can be found in titles, inmiediatley introducing a secondary character, or in descriptions of people and things.
Circumlocution is often used to avoid direct language. For example, a secretary might say "He has been reassigned to another department" when she means "He was fired.
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- circumlocuted
- circumlocutes
- circumlocuting
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