circumlocutory
/sur-kuhm-loh-kyoo-shuhn/US // ˌsɜr kəm loʊˈkyu ʃən //UK // (ˌsɜːkəmləˈkjuːʃən) //
旁敲侧击,周边,旁证,旁敲侧击的
Related Words
euphemism委婉语,委婉的说法,委婉说法,委婉语气diffuseness扩散性,弥散性,扩散度,扩散wordiness词汇量,字数,词汇量大,措辞roundabout迂回曲折,迂回,迂回式,绕行prolixity冗长的文字,冗长的语言,白话文,冗长的语速pleonasm赘语,赘言,赘词,赘述verbiage言语,语言文字,语词,语气词indirectness间接性,间接作用,间接,非直接性tautology同义词,同义反复,同义语,冗词periphrasis语气词,语境,句法,句子discursiveness讨论性,辨别力,辨识度,辨证法gassiness胃气,呕吐,呕吐症,呕吐物verbality动词性,动词,动词表,动词法
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- : a roundabout expression.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
It will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.
Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
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