Dictionary Definition
ambagious adj : 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."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is
archaic) [syn: circumlocutious,
circumlocutory,
periphrastic]
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English
Pronunciation
- /æmˈbeɪdʒəs/
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