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Word | Circumlocutory |
Bengali Meaning | ঘুরাইয়া বলা হইয়াছে এমন |
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression; A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) / Characterised by circumlocution / using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded., | |
Usage | ⇒ he has a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style |
Synonyms | roundabout, periphrastic, ambagious, verbose, indirect, circuitous, diffuse, wordy, circumlocutious, oblique, rambling, tortuous, meandering, prolix, equivocal, long-winded, redundant, twisting, anfractuous, circular, |
Antonyms | direct, aphoristic, blunt, brief, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, epigrammatic, forthright, laconic, plain, straightforward, succinct, summary, terse, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, |
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