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Circumlocutious

Definition: Circumlocutious

Circumlocutious

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.

Synonyms: Circumlocutious

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

Crosswords: Circumlocutious

English words defined with "circumlocutious": ambagious ♦ circumlocutory ♦ periphrastic. (references)

Anagrams: Circumlocutious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-c-i-i-l-m-o-o-r-s-t-u-u-u"
	-5 letters: circuitous, coloristic.
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Alternative Orthography: Circumlocutious

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

43 69 72 63 75 6D 6C 6F 63 75 74 69 6F 75 73

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 01101001 01110010 01100011 01110101 01101101 01101100 01101111 01100011 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#105 &#114 &#99 &#117 &#109 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#117 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0069 0072 0063 0075 006D 006C 006F 0063 0075 0074 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)

377584698779788169878675818785

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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