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circuitousadjective not straightforward or directwe took a circuitous route to the airport so as to avoid the massive traffic jam on the highway circular, indirect, roundabout crooked, curvy, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisting, windingmeandering, rambling, wanderingcircumlocutory, long-winded, prolix, verbosedeceitful, deceptive, devious, dishonest, duplicitous, insidious, misleading, sneaky, underhand, underhandedcalculating, crafty, cunning, subtle, tricky direct, straight, straightforward candid, forthright, frank, honest, open, plain, unconcealed, undisguised using or containing more words than necessary to express an ideaa circuitous explanation for what seems like a fairly basic concept circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, volubleperiphrasticredundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousembellished, embroidered, exaggeratedbombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin(also hifalutin) compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse brief, shortaphoristic, epigrammatic, sententiouscompendious, summaryabbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortenedabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy in 1664 |