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英日字典: circumlocutory

circumlocutory   (Sound)

KK Pronunciation

〔 ˏsFkәmˋlɑkjәˏtorI,-ˏtɒrI 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˏsәːkәmˊlɒkjutәri 〕

The circumlocutory has 1 Senses.

  • circumlocutory, periphrastic, circumlocutious, ambagious
  • 物遠い
  • 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)
  • 取り巻いていて必要以上に冗長な

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