What is "circumlocutory" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "circumlocutory": roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Adjective

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

confined, restricted, succinct, clear, compact, compressed, concentrated, limited, abbreviated, abridged, brief, short, direct, straight, straightforward, forthright, direct, straightforward, honest, direct, straightforward, concise, succinct,