circumlocutory 的定义
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- a roundabout expression.
circumlocutory 近义词
等同于 indirect
circumlocutory 的近义词 41 个
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- implied
- incidental
- oblique
- tortuous
- collateral
- circular
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
circumlocutory 的反义词 3 个
等同于 oblique
circumlocutory 的近义词 11 个
circumlocutory 的反义词 3 个
等同于 roundabout
circumlocutory 的近义词 14 个
- circular
- collateral
- oblique
- ambiguous
- circuitous
- deviating
- devious
- discursive
- evasive
- meandering
- obliquitous
- periphrastic
- taking the long way
- tortuous
circumlocutory 的反义词 3 个
等同于 verbose
等同于 diffuse
更多circumlocutory例句
- To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
- It will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.
- Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
- He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
- It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.