Synonyms of circumlocutory
- 1 Syllable
- long
- 2 Syllables
- winding, rambling, sneaking, crooked, sinuous, snaking, implied, zigzag, devious, twisting, vagrant, tortuous, sneaky
- 3 Syllables
- sidelong, erratic, circular, longwinded, roundabout, contingent, verbose, indirect, long-drawn-out, long-winded, wandering, obscure, meandering, eventual, sinister, oblique, underhand, ambiguous, circuitous
- 4 Syllables
- out-of-the-way, incidental, obliquitous, duplicitous, tautologous, collateral, ancillary, complicated, periphrastic, discursive, secondary, serpentine, subsidiary