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Circumlocutious Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Circumlocutious has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
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."

2

circumlocutional

See Also
circumlocutional
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Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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