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What is the adjective for circumlocutionary?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb circumlocute which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

circumlocutionary
  1. Articulated in a roundabout manner; tautological or with repetitive language.
  2. (of speech) Evasive, avoiding difficult questions or key points.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. pleonastic, roundabout, tautologous
  4. Examples:
      5. “Ted cried, when my father, with some circumlocutionary hesitancy and great delicacy, conveyed his decision to our factotum.”
      “The history may be a little skewed, and the speeches necessarily circumlocutionary, but Oyelowo keeps our attention focused on the real story in triumphant fashion.”
circumlocutory
  1. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic; verbose.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. verbose, prolix, wordy, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, windy, pleonastic, discursive, meandering, periphrastic, logorrheic, repetitious, tautological, wandering, ambagious, repetitive, circumlocutionary, circumlocuitous, circumlocutional, circumlocutious, long-winded, circuitous, lengthy, tedious, loquacious, digressive, redundant, voluble, protracted, palaverous, maundering, gabby, bombastic, talkative, overlong, chatty, turgid, tortuous, logorrhoeic, long-drawn-out, long, prolonged, talky, roundabout, gassy, inflated, flatulent, rhetorical, digressional … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.”
      “He expresses simple ideas in weird, circumlocutory ways, showing special fondness for multiple negatives.”
      “Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.”
circumlocutional
  1. Of or relating to circumlocution: circumlocutionary.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. circumlocutory, indirect, roundabout, circuitous, oblique, circumlocutionary, circumlocuitous, circumlocutious, convoluted, verbose, prolix, wordy, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, windy, pleonastic, discursive, meandering, periphrastic, logorrheic, repetitious, tautological, wandering, long-winded, ambagious, repetitive, evasive, implied, ambiguous, backhanded, digressive, implicit, devious, inexplicit, obliquitous, sneaky, tortuous, inferred, tacit, understood, allusive, sneaking, underhand, hinted at, vague, elliptical, obscure, circular … more
circumlocutive
  1. Employing circumlocution; circumlocutionary.
circumlocuitous
  1. Characterised by circumlocution.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. circumlocutory, circumlocutionary, circumlocutional, circumlocutious, verbose, prolix, wordy, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, windy, pleonastic, discursive, meandering, periphrastic, long-winded, tautological, logorrheic, repetitious, wandering, ambagious, repetitive, indirect, roundabout, circuitous, oblique, convoluted, lengthy, tedious, loquacious, digressive, redundant, voluble, protracted, palaverous, maundering, gabby, bombastic, talkative, overlong, chatty, turgid, tortuous, logorrhoeic, long-drawn-out, long, prolonged, talky, gassy, inflated … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He delivered a circumlocuitous speech, full of unnecessary details and verbose explanations.”
circumlocutious
  1. circumlocutional
  2. Synonyms:
      3. circumlocutory, indirect, roundabout, circuitous, oblique, circumlocutionary, circumlocuitous, circumlocutional, convoluted, verbose, prolix, wordy, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, windy, pleonastic, discursive, meandering, periphrastic, logorrheic, repetitious, tautological, wandering, long-winded, ambagious, repetitive, evasive, implied, ambiguous, backhanded, digressive, implicit, devious, inexplicit, obliquitous, sneaky, tortuous, inferred, tacit, understood, allusive, sneaking, underhand, hinted at, vague, elliptical, obscure, circular … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Over many pages, Proust vividly mimics the elaborately circumlocutious mode of speech of the elderly diplomat.”
      “These characters, both old guard and new, are defining the rules as they go along, and it seems right that the speech of these flailing souls should be so circumlocutious.”
circumlocuted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of circumlocute
  2. Synonyms:
      3. digressed, rambled, blathered, blethered, expatiated, maundered, rambled on, went on, gone on, rattled on, rabbited on, wittered on, went off at a tangent, gone off at a tangent, strayed, deviated, divagated, diverged, drifted, excursed, got sidetracked, gotten sidetracked, got off the subject, gotten off the subject, got off the thread, got off the point, gotten off the point, got off the track, gotten off the track, went off on a tangent, gone off on a tangent, wandered, roamed, ranged, strolled, meandered, roved, rove, walked, traipsed, gallivanted, ambled, cruised, sauntered … more
circumlocuting
  1. present participle of circumlocute
  2. Synonyms:
      3. digressing, rambling, blathering, blethering, expatiating, maundering, rambling on, going on, rattling on, rabbiting on, wittering on, going off at a tangent, straying, deviating, divagating, diverging, drifting, excursing, getting sidetracked, getting off the subject, getting off the thread, getting off the point, getting off the track, going off on a tangent, wandering, roaming, ranging, strolling, meandering, roving, walking, traipsing, gallivanting, ambling, cruising, sauntering, dawdling, mooching, pottering, prowling, coasting, peregrinating, stravaiging, trekking, floating … more
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