circumlocutory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
    periphrastic; ambagious; circumlocutious.
    • 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

WordNet

Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry adjective
Definitions
  1. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone.
    The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

Webster 1913