circumlocutory
71twisty — Synonyms and related words: ambagious, anfractuous, bendy, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, flexuose, flexuous, hairpin, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering …
72verbose — Synonyms and related words: all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable, effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive, extended, filled out, flip, flowery …
73whorled — Synonyms and related words: ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,… …
74winding — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, aberrative, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, convoluted, convolution,… …
75circuity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Indirectness Nouns circuity, circuitousness, circuition, circumvention, circumlocution, indirectness; bypass, roundabout way, ambages, detour, loop, winding, zigzag, deviation. See avoidance, convolution.… …
76diffuseness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Verbosity Nouns diffuseness, expatiation, enlargement, expansion, development, dilation, dilating; verbosity, loquacity; peroration, repetition; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance, thrice told tale;… …
77discursive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wandering, rambling, desultory, digressive. See deviation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. rambling, desultory, digressive; see verbose . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. rambling, digressive,… …
78long-winded — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. tedious. See diffuseness, weariness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. redundant, wordy, prolix; see verbose . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. wordy, verbose, prolix, *windy, diffuse, rambling,… …
79roundabout — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. circuitous, indirect. See circuity, deviation, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indirect, circuitous, devious, deviating; see indirect . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. indirect… …
80verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …
