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.
  •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.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.