AMBAGIOUS

circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious

(adjective) 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)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

ambagious (comparative more ambagious, superlative most ambagious)

Roundabout; vague.

Indefinite.

Source: Wiktionary


Am*ba"gious, a. Etym: [L. ambagiosus.]

Definition: Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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