slovo | definícia |
Ambagious (gcide) | Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
[1913 Webster] |
ambagious (wn) | ambagious
adj 1: 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, ambagious] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
ambagious (wn) | ambagious
adj 1: 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, ambagious] |
|