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Definition: Ambagious |
AmbagiousAdjective1. 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, adjective. [Latin expression ambagiosus.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Ambagious" is a common misspelling or typo for: ambiguous, ambitious. |
Synonyms: AmbagiousSynonyms: circumlocutious (adj), circumlocutory (adj), periphrastic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ambagious |
| English words defined with "ambagious": Ambaginous, Ambagitory. (references) |
| Words rhyming with "ambagious" (pronounced 'Am*ba"gious'): Anticontagious, Contagious, Egregious, irreligious, litigious, Noncontagious, Oragious, Presagious, Prodigious, Ragious, sacrilegious, Sortilegious, Unreligious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-i-m-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bigamous, gambusia. | |
-2 letters: abomasi, agamous, gambias. | |
-3 letters: abomas, amigas, amigos, amusia, biogas, gambas, gambia, gumbos, iambus, imagos, miaous. | |
-4 letters: aboma, agios, agism, agmas, ambos, amias, amiga, amigo, bimas, bogus, gamas, gamba, gambs, gaums, gismo, gumbo, iambs, imago, magus, miaou, obias, ogams, omasa, sagum, saiga, samba, sambo, sigma, umbos. | |
-5 letters: abas, abos, agas, agio, agma, aims. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-g-i-m-o-s-u" | |
+5 letters: disambiguation, somnambulating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 62 61 67 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -... .- --. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m b a g i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0062 0061 0067 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357968677375818785 |
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