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circumlocutionary
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circumlocutionary
adjective
articulate|Articulated in a roundabout manner; tautological or with repetitive language
Words Related to
circumlocutionary
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circumlocutional
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circumlocutious
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circumforaneous
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evasive
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circuitous
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perissological
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roundabout
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hysteron proteron
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rhetorical device
,
autological
,
circumlocutory
,
ambiguous
,
amphibological
,
amphibolous
,
tautological
,
obtuse
,
brachyology
,
overelaborate
,
figure of speech
,
amphigoric
,
wordy
,
unrhetorical
,
nonsensical
,
platitudinize
,
traffic circle
,
longspun
,
illogical
,
paralogical
,
inaniloquent
,
wordish
,
epiplexis
,
kyriology
,
vague
,
anacoluthic
,
leasy
,
speechful
,
rhetorical
,
pauciloquy
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tautologize
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convolute
,
verbal noun
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addlebrained
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overcareful
,
indirect speech
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quirkish
,
contrarious
,
vaniloquent
,
direct speech
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hebetate
,
circumposition
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jargle
,
vagous
,
multiloquous
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acataleptic
,
terse
,
simplistic
,
jigamaree
,
trite
,
breviloquence
,
function word
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anacoluthia
,
trangram
,
petitio principii
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renable
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prosaic
,
set phrase
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present participle
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pedantize
,
reflexive verb
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argutation
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ungain
,
disingenuous
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straightforward
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repetitious
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ambisinister
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hypobole
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loobily
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imperfective aspect
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expressive style
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antimetathesis
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tortuous
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flippant
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imprecise
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supervacaneous
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homoioptoton
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equivocal
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antiphrastic
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circumpose
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perfective aspect
,
discursive
,
ingemination
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pronunciative
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orthotone
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verbose
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parelcon
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pointless
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formal language
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ambisinistrous
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pedantic
,
eloquent
,
circumlocutionary
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