英语词汇“circumlocutory”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

WORD FAMILY

circumlocutory

USAGE EXAMPLES

The German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term.

BBC(Jun 04, 2013)

"Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?"

Kennedy, John Pendleton, Horse-Shoe Robinson—A Tale of the T...(2010)

Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."

Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education, Volume II—Th...(2010)

adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Syn

ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic
indirect

extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action

单词	circumlocutory
释义	circumlocutory (once / 179081 pages) adj WORD FAMILY circumlocutory USAGE EXAMPLES The German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term. BBC(Jun 04, 2013) "Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?" Kennedy, John Pendleton, Horse-Shoe Robinson—A Tale of the T...(2010) Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges." Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education, Volume II—Th...(2010) adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy Syn ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
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