ambagious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
   Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
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