circumlocutory

GRE

英[?s?:k?ml?\'kju:t?r?]
美[?s?k?ml?\'kjut?r?]

基本釋義

adj.
(行文說話等)委婉曲折的,迂回的

詞性變化

實用例句

I entered the village by the little circumlocutory lane.

我由一條迂回曲折的小徑進了村。

辭典例句

英英釋義

Adjective
  • 1. 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)

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