Synonyms for Circumlocutory:

• adj.

  •diffuse (adjective)
  • meandering,
  • loose,
  • long-winded,
  • waffling,
  • copious,
  • prolix,
  • lavish,
  • windy,
  • profuse,
  • dull,
  • long,
  • digressive,
  • lengthy,
  • random,
  • redundant,
  • discursive,
  • rambling,
  • exuberant,
  • vague.
  •indirect (adjective)
  • crooked,
  • vagrant,
  • complicated,
  • circuitous,
  • serpentine,
  • sneaking,
  • sinister,
  • duplicitous,
  • circular,
  • tortuous,
  • winding,
  • secondary,
  • ancillary,
  • twisting,
  • eventual,
  • devious,
  • obscure,
  • sinuous,
  • subsidiary,
  • wandering,
  • incidental,
  • ambiguous,
  • zigzag,
  • contingent,
  • underhand,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • implied,
  • collateral,
  • sneaky,
  • long-drawn-out,
  • erratic.
  •oblique (adjective)
  • obliquitous,
  • backhanded.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • sidelong,
  • verbose,
  • long way home,
  • Snaking,
  • palaverous,
  • diffusive,
  • indirect,
  • longwinded,
  • oblique,
  • roundabout.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • taking the long way,
  • Deviating.
  •verbose (adjective)
  • fustian,
  • flowery,
  • grandiloquent,
  • magniloquent,
  • tautological,
  • repeating,
  • garrulous,
  • bombastic,
  • repetitive,
  • yacking,
  • gabby,
  • talky,
  • full of air,
  • rhetorical,
  • involved,
  • talkative,
  • tedious.

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • ambagious,
  • circumlocutious,
  • periphrastic.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • underhandedly,
  • bubbling,
  • namby-pamby,
  • scintillating,
  • pervade,
  • black,
  • plentiful,
  • tiresome,
  • dianoetic,
  • breezy,
  • effervescing,
  • confutable,
  • at sea,
  • secondary coil,
  • consequent,
  • bigmouthed,
  • janus-faced,
  • supplementary,
  • tall,
  • flyer,
  • soapy,
  • insistent,
  • undefined,
  • confuse,
  • dodgy,
  • unloosen,
  • disseminate,
  • askant,
  • spread out,
  • open,
  • pontifical,
  • unarticulate,
  • corroborative,
  • tangential,
  • veil,
  • hedge,
  • surreptitious,
  • blah,
  • excess,
  • throwaway,
  • corrupt,
  • carrousel,
  • overrefinement,
  • musculus obliquus externus abdominis,
  • staccato,
  • slick down,
  • drifting,
  • nonessential,
  • blabby,
  • sly,
  • quicksilver,
  • numb,
  • flier,
  • untrusting,
  • dependant on,
  • drawn-out,
  • farseeing,
  • chatty,
  • round-shouldered,
  • interpenetrate,
  • broadsheet,
  • foamy,
  • bubbly,
  • planless,
  • cunning,
  • ebullient,
  • disseminative,
  • bemused,
  • crank,
  • whirl,
  • petty,
  • wormy,
  • accidental,
  • tenacious,
  • stooped,
  • substantiative,
  • glib,
  • satiny,
  • mist,
  • on the loose,
  • apart,
  • prolonged,
  • zig-zag,
  • neat,
  • permeate,
  • plushy,
  • confounded,
  • unstinted,
  • drifter,
  • undirected,
  • upset,
  • riddle,
  • disunited,
  • orbitual,
  • suspect,
  • hide,
  • lax,
  • confirmatory,
  • vagabond,
  • concomitant,
  • adjunct,
  • garbled,
  • corroboratory,
  • obtuse,
  • temperamental,
  • vagabondage,
  • lost,
  • too-generous,
  • peregrine,
  • fragmented,
  • blowy,
  • ornate,
  • carousel,
  • isolated,
  • greasy,
  • hanker,
  • sneak,
  • tongue-tied,
  • tumid,
  • fickle,
  • release,
  • longsighted,
  • accompanying,
  • spiraling,
  • nomadic,
  • relax,
  • voluminous,
  • unsparing,
  • double-tongued,
  • snakelike,
  • straggling,
  • clochard,
  • shower,
  • threatening,
  • prim,
  • diffusing,
  • funny,
  • incidental expense,
  • disoriented,
  • fallacious,
  • benumb,
  • secondary winding,
  • plenteous,
  • restrained,
  • external oblique muscle,
  • unknown,
  • unleash,
  • free,
  • sebaceous,
  • distribute,
  • sempiternal,
  • guileful,
  • leaden,
  • torture,
  • overgenerous,
  • plush,
  • blot out,
  • addled,
  • convoluted,
  • shadowy,
  • two-faced,
  • let loose,
  • disperse,
  • off the beaten track,
  • dependent upon,
  • sinuate,
  • lissome,
  • hesitating,
  • adjuvant,
  • round-backed,
  • circularise,
  • disordered,
  • fraudulent,
  • cloud,
  • underling,
  • pat,
  • overblown,
  • labyrinthian,
  • mixed-up,
  • lower-ranking,
  • luxuriant,
  • afloat,
  • imbue,
  • planetary,
  • retiring,
  • volute,
  • surplus,
  • unlogical,
  • adrift,
  • slow,
  • verticillated,
  • spare,
  • underhanded,
  • helical,
  • round,
  • loosen,
  • byzantine,
  • contingent on,
  • unaffixed,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • straining,
  • scattered,
  • baleful,
  • escaped,
  • misrepresented,
  • unemotional,
  • split,
  • self-effacing,
  • disingenuous,
  • boring,
  • liberate,
  • thudding,
  • knotty,
  • hidden,
  • minor expense,
  • sleek,
  • supple,
  • impractical,
  • dim,
  • supernumerary,
  • unstinting,
  • twee,
  • underarm,
  • hunched,
  • glossy,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • backhand,
  • floating,
  • silky,
  • dense,
  • unorganised,
  • abdominal external oblique muscle,
  • prospicient,
  • muffled,
  • broadcast,
  • nonunionized,
  • detail,
  • spumy,
  • coiling,
  • baffled,
  • out of the ordinary,
  • ensuant,
  • easy,
  • subaltern,
  • turn,
  • zig,
  • lucullan,
  • facile,
  • knavish,
  • sideways,
  • extra,
  • superfluous,
  • wooly,
  • becloud,
  • subordinate,
  • confirmative,
  • dependant upon,
  • shifting,
  • furtive,
  • extravagant,
  • fan out,
  • appurtenant,
  • tone down,
  • slip,
  • wearisome,
  • gutless,
  • informal,
  • validating,
  • unconnected,
  • yearn,
  • shady,
  • airy,
  • spineless,
  • sequent,
  • turgid,
  • unsung,
  • verifying,
  • bombast,
  • effervescent,
  • untalkative,
  • muffle,
  • dislocated,
  • overweening,
  • lithe,
  • asquint,
  • complex,
  • penetrate,
  • lateral,
  • at large,
  • sleek down,
  • sparkly,
  • verificatory,
  • broken,
  • muzzy,
  • subsidiary company,
  • unloose,
  • auxiliary,
  • oblique case,
  • blur,
  • double-dealing,
  • bill,
  • spiral,
  • twirl,
  • forbidding,
  • eternal,
  • verticillate,
  • blabbermouthed,
  • uncertain,
  • buttery,
  • high-spirited,
  • nonunionised,
  • retentive,
  • distorted,
  • dark,
  • ample,
  • handbill,
  • depending on,
  • befog,
  • lush,
  • slick magazine,
  • foxy,
  • gassy,
  • obliterate,
  • worm-eaten,
  • claptrap,
  • visionary,
  • extended,
  • circularize,
  • vermiculated,
  • mazed,
  • pass around,
  • smarmy,
  • mobile,
  • riotous,
  • pompous,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • minatory,
  • askance,
  • foot soldier,
  • merry-go-round,
  • repetition,
  • turbinate,
  • dampen,
  • abrupt,
  • stooping,
  • rotary,
  • whirligig,
  • crafty,
  • tangled,
  • recollective,
  • bewildered,
  • propagate,
  • damp,
  • rudderless,
  • tricky,
  • resultant,
  • unavowed,
  • fog,
  • rich,
  • haze over,
  • portentous,
  • deadening,
  • liberal,
  • voluted,
  • straggly,
  • dumb,
  • ho-hum,
  • tricksy,
  • wispy,
  • refutable,
  • perverted,
  • menacing,
  • floater,
  • foaming,
  • foresighted,
  • confutative,
  • oleaginous,
  • obliquely,
  • lissom,
  • double-faced,
  • zag,
  • sluttish,
  • loath,
  • circle,
  • vermicular,
  • leery,
  • large,
  • squint-eyed,
  • ominous,
  • directionless,
  • foresightful,
  • sprawling,
  • wiggly,
  • befuddled,
  • asymmetrical,
  • mercurial,
  • circulate,
  • farsighted,
  • squinty,
  • twist,
  • disorganised,
  • deceptive,
  • stealthy,
  • junior-grade,
  • dateless,
  • rant,
  • fulsome,
  • supplemental,
  • wind,
  • incident,
  • slipperiness,
  • slack,
  • supererogatory,
  • softened,
  • circumlocutory,
  • promiscuous,
  • woolly,
  • slickness,
  • faint,
  • dispersive,
  • overcloud,
  • fishy,
  • spin,
  • bedim,
  • declamatory,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • wooly-minded,
  • substantiating,
  • light,
  • muted,
  • accessory,
  • mute,
  • spread,
  • unnoticeable,
  • disorderly,
  • expansive,
  • munificent,
  • ambidextrous,
  • contingent upon,
  • broadside,
  • woolly-headed,
  • mistrustful,
  • diffused,
  • wanton,
  • blunt,
  • soft,
  • squint,
  • out of the way,
  • opaque,
  • separated,
  • lithesome,
  • dependent on,
  • orotund,
  • loth,
  • colicky,
  • pall,
  • wily,
  • attendant,
  • mired,
  • wary,
  • changeable,
  • excessive,
  • sigmoidal,
  • distortion,
  • validatory,
  • idle,
  • silklike,
  • minacious,
  • silken,
  • traffic circle,
  • confirming,
  • lowly,
  • sluggish.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • hedging,
  • equivocal,
  • loquacious,
  • artful,
  • vermiculate,
  • disconnected,
  • frothy,
  • confused,
  • suspicious,
  • questionable,
  • repetitious,
  • mazy,
  • circumlocutionary,
  • oily,
  • disjointed,
  • unctuous,
  • slick,
  • euphemistic,
  • jumbled,
  • anfractuous,
  • Longsome,
  • hypocritical,
  • Prosing,
  • incoherent,
  • ambivalent,
  • reticent,
  • wishy-washy,
  • sigmoid,
  • diffuse,
  • unorganized,
  • disorganized,
  • tautologic,
  • Equivocating,
  • mincing,
  • inarticulate,
  • evasive,
  • endless,
  • flexuous,
  • flatulent,
  • Amphibolic,
  • mealymouthed,
  • wordy,
  • protracted,
  • excursive,
  • Largiloquent,
  • logorrheic,
  • illogical,
  • twisty,
  • Circumambient,
  • Tautologous,
  • reluctant,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • Longspun,
  • Amphibolous,
  • muddled,
  • hesitant,
  • pleonastic,
  • turning,
  • Circumlocutional,
  • aimless,
  • scrambled,
  • roving,
  • over-long,
  • interminable,
  • whorled,
  • round-about,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Involuted,
  • snaky,
  • maundering,
  • misleading,
  • twisted,
  • Torsional,
  • unsettled,
  • unintelligible,
  • deceitful,
  • shifty.

Antonyms for Circumlocutory:

• adj.

  • diffuse
    compact, short, abridged, compressed, succinct, abbreviated, brief, concentrated, restricted, limited, clear, confined.
  • indirect
    direct, straight, straightforward.
  • oblique
    forthright.
  • roundabout
    honest.
  • verbose
    concise.
  • Other antonyms:
    aphoristic, brusque, abrupt, crisp, sententious, blunt, terse, laconic, epigrammatic, condensed, shortened, compendious, summary, curt, pithy, snippy.