circuitous
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8.4
- adjective
- /sɜrˈkjuːɪtəs/
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circuitoso
- Back down on the first floor, she took the circuitous route through communications to the ID room.
- circuitous route
- circuitous path
- circuitous journey
Perhaps they were dumped along the oddly circuitous wooded Dr.
- Perhaps they were dumped along the oddly circuitous wooded Dr.
- Yeah, it's quite a a circuitous route, really.
- So looking back, it was kind of a circuitous route to it.
- But the mechanisms through which gender inequality work are now much more circuitous, much more indirect than they used to be.
- He took off that work suit, put it in a plastic garbage bag and on his circuitous route back to his apartment in Washington.
- So a lot of times my lines are written in a weird circuitous way that on the surface, maybe it just needs to be said that weird way.
- So I took this weird, circuitous, nonsensical route back to the guest house and several blocks away he dropped off again.
- And it it's usually more circuitous or unexpected.
- I wrote a whole piece because just because I like the word circuitous, isn't that a beautiful word?
Examples
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I'm in decent shape, but the steep terrain, circuitous route, and June heat were punishing.
Academic text (2008) -
She explained her idea in a circuitous manner, making it hard for us to follow.
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Yeah, it's quite a a circuitous route, really.
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So looking back, it was kind of a circuitous route to it.
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And so, you know, of course, they took the most circuitous route possible in the prison camp.
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Because of the circuitous route, the channel's actual length was more than 50 km.
Academic text (2003) -
Bic avoided Main Street and drove a circuitous route the five miles to the farm.
Fiction book (1992) -
This arrived for you via… a very circuitous route.
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Raful's paratrooper battalion was having a breeze after a long, circuitous desert journey that avoided the Mitla Pass.
Fiction book (1993) -
Dickens could have avoided this circuitous description and merely told us, "Pecksniff is a hypocritical snob."
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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8.1
Full of twists and turns, like a winding road or an argument
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4.9
Not direct in route, speech, or action
Moving in a circular path that returns to the start
A path or road that has many twists and turns
Antonyms
How Indirect
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word circuitous comes from Latin parts circum- 'around' and ire 'to go', like in circle and circuit. So, a circuitous route or explanation goes around and is not direct.