ambagious

  • (s) 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. -T.S.Eliot; ("ambagious" is archaic)
    circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic,

Synonyms

circumlocutious circumlocutory periphrastic

Words of close approximity