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CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL

Definition: CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL

CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL

Adjective

1. Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL

Language Translations for "CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përshkrues (descriptive, expositive, expository), me shumë fjalë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уклончив (cagey, evasive, lubricous, non committal, oblique). (various references)

   

Czech

  

opisný (circumlocutory, paraphrastic, periphrastic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

köntörfalazó (evasive, prevaricator, quibbling, shuffler, shuffling, tergiversator). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ircumlocutionalcay

   

Portuguese

  

com grande fôlego (longwise), verboso (garter, gastric, glib, hotbed, long winded, prolix, verbose, wordy), falador (big mouth, blithering, cackler, gabbler, gassy, hot air, leaky, long winded, loquacity, talkative, talker, talking). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уклончивый (elusive, evasive, non committal, noncommittal, tortuous), многоречивый (long winded, voluble). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaobilazno govorenje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

circunloquial (circumlocutory), rodeal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

omskrivnings-. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL"

Words rhyming with "CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL" (pronounced 'Cir`cum*lo*cu"tion*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: circumlocution.

-4 letters: monocultural.

-5 letters: circulation, collimation, conciliator, illuminator.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 52 43 55 4D 4C 4F 43 55 54 49 4F 4E 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    .-.    -.-.    ..-    --    .-..    ---    -.-.    ..-    -    ..    ---    -.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001101 01001100 01001111 01000011 01010101 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#82 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#85 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0052 0043 0055 004D 004C 004F 0043 0055 0054 0049 004F 004E 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37435237554746493755544349483546

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeservo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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