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Ambagious

Definition: Ambagious

Ambagious

Adjective

1. 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: Ambagious

Synonyms: circumlocutious (adj), circumlocutory (adj), periphrastic (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ambagious

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Ambagious

English words defined with "ambagious": Ambaginous, Ambagitory. (references)

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Rhyming with "Ambagious"

Words rhyming with "ambagious" (pronounced 'Am*ba"gious'): Anticontagious, Contagious, Egregious, irreligious, litigious, Noncontagious, Oragious, Presagious, Prodigious, Ragious, sacrilegious, Sortilegious, Unreligious. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ambagious

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ambagious


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

41 6D 62 61 67 69 6F 75 73

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

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

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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)

01000001 01101101 01100010 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#98 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0062 0061 0067 0069 006F 0075 0073

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

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

357968677375818785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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