circumlocutious

Adjective circumlocutious has 1 sense

• circumlocutious(s = adj.all) ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic - 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."
Derived forms noun circumlocution₂, noun circumlocution₁