Circuitous \Cir*cu"i*tous\, a. [LL. circuitosus.]
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a
circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
circuitous
adj 1: 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" [syn: roundabout]
2: deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious
route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat";
"a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: devious,
roundabout]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "circuitous":
O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand,
backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral,
convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant,
deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive,
divagational, divergent, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose,
flexuous, helical, indirect, involute, involuted, involutional,
labyrinthine, left-handed, mazy, meandering, meandrous, oblique,
orbital, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, planetary, rambling, rivose,
rivulose, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine,
shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuate, sinuose,
sinuous, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, torsional, tortile,
tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering,
wandering, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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