ambagious meaning

UK US

ambagious (adjective): roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic).

Definition of ambagious

  1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
    • 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.

    Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

    Similar: indirect

    Related forms: ambage

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