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Word | Circuitous |
marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; the explanation was circuitous and puzzling; a roundabout paragraph; hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend / Going round in a circuit / roundabout / (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way. / not straight, short, and direct / not said or done simply or clearly, | |
Usage | ⇒ He gave a circuitous and puzzling explanation on the theory ⇒ Because of the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route. ⇒ Their logic seems a bit circuitous. ⇒ the canal followed a circuitous route ⇒ They drove a circuitous route to town to avoid the traffic jam |
Synonyms | roundabout, devious, indirect, tortuous, winding, oblique, rambling, circular, meandering, zigzag, ambagious, serpentine, anfractuous, circumlocutory, crooked, discursive, labyrinthine, periphrastic, sinuous, collateral, |
Antonyms | direct, straight, forthright, frank, straightforward, blunt, candid, concise, honest, plain, abrupt, aphoristic, bluff, brief, brusque, compact, compendious, crisp, curt, epigrammatic, |
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