What is another word for circumlocutory?
634 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ sˈɜːkəmlˌɒkjuːtəɹˌi], [ sˈɜːkəmlˌɒkjuːtəɹˌi], [ s_ˈɜː_k_ə_m_l_ˌɒ_k_j_uː_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]
Circumlocutory is an adjective that describes someone or something that uses too many words to express an idea, or talks around an issue instead of addressing it directly. Some synonyms for the word include evasive, verbose, wordy, prolix, and roundabout. Other words that have a similar meaning include meandering, rambling, tangential, indirect, and oblique. When we want to convey the idea of talking in circles or avoiding the main point, we can also use synonyms like equivocal, vague, ambiguous, and hesitant. Circumlocutory language can be frustrating to listen to or read, so it's important to use clear, concise, and direct communication whenever possible.
Synonyms for Circumlocutory:
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adj.
• oblique • verbose- full of air ,
- yacking ,
- bombastic ,
- flowery ,
- fustian ,
- gabby ,
- garrulous ,
- grandiloquent ,
- involved ,
- magniloquent ,
- repeating ,
- repetitive ,
- rhetorical ,
- talkative ,
- talky ,
- tautological ,
- tedious .
Other relevant words:
- abdominal external oblique muscle ,
- abrupt ,
- accessory ,
- accidental ,
- accompanying ,
- addled ,
- adjunct ,
- adjuvant ,
- adrift ,
- afloat ,
- airy ,
- ambidextrous ,
- ample ,
- apart ,
- appurtenant ,
- askance ,
- askant ,
- asquint ,
- asymmetrical ,
- at large ,
- at sea ,
- attendant ,
- auxiliary ,
- backhand ,
- baffled ,
- baleful ,
- becloud ,
- bedim ,
- befog ,
- befuddled ,
- bemused ,
- benumb ,
- bewildered ,
- bigmouthed ,
- bill ,
- blabbermouthed ,
- blabby ,
- black ,
- blah ,
- blot out ,
- blowy ,
- blunt ,
- blur ,
- bombast ,
- boring ,
- breezy ,
- broadcast ,
- broadsheet ,
- broadside ,
- broken ,
- bubbling ,
- bubbly ,
- buttery ,
- byzantine ,
- carousel ,
- carrousel ,
- changeable ,
- chatty ,
- circle ,
- circularise ,
- circularize ,
- circulate ,
- circumlocutory ,
- claptrap ,
- clochard ,
- cloud ,
- coiling ,
- colicky ,
- complex ,
- concomitant ,
- confirmative ,
- confirmatory ,
- confirming ,
- confounded ,
- confuse ,
- confutable ,
- confutative ,
- consequent ,
- contingent on ,
- contingent upon ,
- convoluted ,
- corroborative ,
- corroboratory ,
- corrupt ,
- crafty ,
- crank ,
- cunning ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- dark ,
- dateless ,
- deadening ,
- deceptive ,
- declamatory ,
- dense ,
- dependant on ,
- dependant upon ,
- dependent on ,
- dependent upon ,
- depending on ,
- detail ,
- dianoetic ,
- diffused ,
- diffusing ,
- dim ,
- directionless ,
- disingenuous ,
- dislocated ,
- disordered ,
- disorderly ,
- disorganised ,
- disoriented ,
- disperse ,
- dispersive ,
- disseminate ,
- disseminative ,
- distorted ,
- distortion ,
- distribute ,
- disunited ,
- dodgy ,
- double-dealing ,
- double-faced ,
- double-tongued ,
- drawn-out ,
- drifter ,
- drifting ,
- dumb ,
- easy ,
- ebullient ,
- effervescent ,
- effervescing ,
- ensuant ,
- escaped ,
- eternal ,
- excess ,
- excessive ,
- expansive ,
- extended ,
- external oblique muscle ,
- extra ,
- extravagant ,
- facile ,
- faint ,
- fallacious ,
- fan out ,
- farseeing ,
- farsighted ,
- fickle ,
- fishy ,
- flier ,
- floater ,
- floating ,
- flyer ,
- foaming ,
- foamy ,
- fog ,
- foot soldier ,
- forbidding ,
- foresighted ,
- foresightful ,
- foxy ,
- fragmented ,
- fraudulent ,
- free ,
- fulsome ,
- funny ,
- furtive ,
- garbled ,
- gassy ,
- glib ,
- glossy ,
- greasy ,
- guileful ,
- gutless ,
- handbill ,
- hanker ,
- haze over ,
- hedge ,
- helical ,
- hesitating ,
- hidden ,
- hide ,
- higgledy-piggledy ,
- high-spirited ,
- ho-hum ,
- hugger-mugger ,
- hunched ,
- idle ,
- imbue ,
- impractical ,
- incident ,
- incidental expense ,
- informal ,
- insistent ,
- interpenetrate ,
- isolated ,
- janus-faced ,
- junior-grade ,
- knavish ,
- knotty ,
- labyrinthian ,
- large ,
- lateral ,
- lax ,
- leaden ,
- leery ,
- let loose ,
- liberal ,
- liberate ,
- light ,
- lissom ,
- lissome ,
- lithe ,
- lithesome ,
- loath ,
- longsighted ,
- loosen ,
- lost ,
- loth ,
- lower-ranking ,
- lowly ,
- lucullan ,
- lush ,
- luxuriant ,
- mazed ,
- menacing ,
- mercurial ,
- merry-go-round ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- minor expense ,
- mired ,
- misrepresented ,
- mist ,
- mistrustful ,
- mixed-up ,
- mobile ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- munificent ,
- musculus obliquus externus abdominis ,
- mute ,
- muted ,
- muzzy ,
- namby-pamby ,
- neat ,
- niminy-piminy ,
- nomadic ,
- nonessential ,
- nonunionised ,
- nonunionized ,
- numb ,
- oblique case ,
- obliquely ,
- obliterate ,
- obtuse ,
- off the beaten track ,
- oleaginous ,
- ominous ,
- on the loose ,
- opaque ,
- open ,
- orbitual ,
- ornate ,
- orotund ,
- out of the ordinary ,
- out of the way ,
- overblown ,
- overcloud ,
- overgenerous ,
- overrefinement ,
- overweening ,
- pall ,
- pass around ,
- pat ,
- penetrate ,
- peregrine ,
- permeate ,
- pervade ,
- perverted ,
- petty ,
- planetary ,
- planless ,
- plenteous ,
- plentiful ,
- plush ,
- plushy ,
- pompous ,
- pontifical ,
- portentous ,
- prim ,
- prolonged ,
- promiscuous ,
- propagate ,
- prospicient ,
- quicksilver ,
- rant ,
- recollective ,
- refutable ,
- relax ,
- release ,
- repetition ,
- restrained ,
- resultant ,
- retentive ,
- retiring ,
- rich ,
- riddle ,
- riotous ,
- rotary ,
- round ,
- round-backed ,
- round-shouldered ,
- rudderless ,
- satiny ,
- scattered ,
- scintillating ,
- sebaceous ,
- secondary coil ,
- secondary winding ,
- self-effacing ,
- sempiternal ,
- separated ,
- sequent ,
- shadowy ,
- shady ,
- shifting ,
- shower ,
- sideways ,
- sigmoidal ,
- silken ,
- silklike ,
- silky ,
- sinuate ,
- slack ,
- sleek ,
- sleek down ,
- slick down ,
- slick magazine ,
- slickness ,
- slip ,
- slipperiness ,
- slow ,
- sluggish ,
- sluttish ,
- sly ,
- smarmy ,
- snakelike ,
- sneak ,
- soapy ,
- soft ,
- softened ,
- spare ,
- sparkly ,
- spin ,
- spineless ,
- spiral ,
- spiraling ,
- split ,
- sprawling ,
- spread ,
- spread out ,
- spumy ,
- squint ,
- squint-eyed ,
- squinty ,
- staccato ,
- stealthy ,
- stooped ,
- stooping ,
- straggling ,
- straggly ,
- straining ,
- subaltern ,
- subordinate ,
- subsidiary company ,
- substantiating ,
- substantiative ,
- supererogatory ,
- superfluous ,
- supernumerary ,
- supple ,
- supplemental ,
- supplementary ,
- surplus ,
- surreptitious ,
- suspect ,
- tall ,
- tangential ,
- tangled ,
- temperamental ,
- tenacious ,
- threatening ,
- throwaway ,
- thudding ,
- tiresome ,
- tone down ,
- tongue-tied ,
- too-generous ,
- topsy-turvy ,
- torture ,
- traffic circle ,
- tricksy ,
- tricky ,
- tumid ,
- turbinate ,
- turgid ,
- turn ,
- twee ,
- twirl ,
- twist ,
- two-faced ,
- unaffixed ,
- unarticulate ,
- unavowed ,
- uncertain ,
- unconnected ,
- undefined ,
- underarm ,
- underhanded ,
- underhandedly ,
- underling ,
- undirected ,
- unemotional ,
- unknown ,
- unleash ,
- unlogical ,
- unloose ,
- unloosen ,
- unnoticeable ,
- unorganised ,
- unsparing ,
- unstinted ,
- unstinting ,
- unsung ,
- untalkative ,
- untrusting ,
- upset ,
- vagabond ,
- vagabondage ,
- validating ,
- validatory ,
- veil ,
- verificatory ,
- verifying ,
- vermicular ,
- vermiculated ,
- verticillate ,
- verticillated ,
- visionary ,
- voluminous ,
- volute ,
- voluted ,
- wanton ,
- wary ,
- wearisome ,
- whirl ,
- whirligig ,
- wiggly ,
- wily ,
- wind ,
- wispy ,
- woolly ,
- woolly-headed ,
- wooly ,
- wooly-minded ,
- worm-eaten ,
- wormy ,
- yearn ,
- zag ,
- zig ,
- zig-zag .
- Amphibolic ,
- Amphibolous ,
- Circumambient ,
- Circumlocutional ,
- Equivocating ,
- Involuted ,
- Largiloquent ,
- Longsome ,
- Longspun ,
- Prosing ,
- Tautologous ,
- Torsional ,
- aimless ,
- ambiguous ,
- ambivalent ,
- anfractuous ,
- artful ,
- circuitous ,
- circular ,
- circumlocutionary ,
- confused ,
- copious ,
- crooked ,
- deceitful ,
- devious ,
- diffuse ,
- diffusive ,
- digressive ,
- disconnected ,
- discursive ,
- disjointed ,
- disorganized ,
- duplicitous ,
- endless ,
- equivocal ,
- erratic ,
- euphemistic ,
- evasive ,
- excursive ,
- exuberant ,
- flatulent ,
- flexuous ,
- frothy ,
- hedging ,
- hesitant ,
- hypocritical ,
- illogical ,
- inarticulate ,
- incoherent ,
- interminable ,
- jumbled ,
- labyrinthine ,
- lengthy ,
- logorrheic ,
- long-winded ,
- loose ,
- loquacious ,
- maundering ,
- mazy ,
- mealy-mouthed ,
- mealymouthed ,
- meandering ,
- mincing ,
- misleading ,
- muddled ,
- oblique ,
- oily ,
- over-long ,
- pleonastic ,
- profuse ,
- prolix ,
- protracted ,
- questionable ,
- rambling ,
- redundant ,
- reluctant ,
- repetitious ,
- reticent ,
- round-about ,
- roundabout ,
- roving ,
- scrambled ,
- serpentine ,
- shifty ,
- sigmoid ,
- sinuous ,
- slick ,
- snaky ,
- suspicious ,
- tautologic ,
- tortuous ,
- turning ,
- twisted ,
- twisting ,
- twisty ,
- unctuous ,
- unintelligible ,
- unorganized ,
- unsettled ,
- vague ,
- verbose ,
- vermiculate ,
- waffling ,
- wandering ,
- whorled ,
- winding ,
- wishy-washy ,
- wordy ,
- zigzag .
How to use "Circumlocutory" in context?
Circumlocutory refers to any legal term or phrase that is not essential to the logic of a case but is used for the purpose of making a point. It can be used in court documents, speeches, and arguments to show the court or jury that the speaker is familiar with the law.
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