Circuitous
[sɜː'kjuːɪtəs] or [sɚ'kjʊɪtəs]
Definition
(adj.) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; 'the explanation was circuitous and puzzling'; 'a roundabout paragraph'; 'hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend' .
Inputed by Dennis--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Typed by Humphrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Tortuous, devious, turning, winding, indirect, round about.
Checked by Jerome
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round_about, sinuous, winding
ANT:Linear, direct, straight
Inputed by Ferdinand
Examples
- In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A similar quantity was poured into his glass, and he got it to his lips by similar circuitous ways. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On these same principles we see how it is that the mutual affinities of the forms within each class are so complex and circuitous. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Any fresh troops for us must come by a circuitous route. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Why adopt a circuitous form of speech? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I took a circuitous path, principally for the sake of going to the top of the mount before mentioned, which commanded a view of the city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Inputed by Ferdinand