ambagious
- adjective
- /æmˈbeɪdʒəs/
- Archaic
:
circunlocutorio
- Emily's ambagious explanations often left her listeners confused and impatient.
Examples
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He preferred clear answers to the ambagious responses offered by politicians.
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The critic complained that the author's ambagious style distracted from the central point of the essay.
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His explanation was so ambagious that no one understood the point.
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The professor's ambagious lecture left the students confused.
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Emily's ambagious explanations regularly left her audience feeling perplexed and exasperated.
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He found the politician's ambagious remarks frustrating, as they avoided answering the questions directly.
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The professor's ambagious lecture style often made it difficult for the students to grasp important concepts.
Synonyms
12
8.5
Using big, showy words that have little real meaning
8
3.7
Using more words than needed makes the meaning hard to understand
Using more words than needed to say what you mean in a roundabout way
Using many words instead of saying something clearly to avoid a direct answer
To use more words than needed in speech or writing to say something simple
Talking a lot quickly and without stopping
Using long, difficult words in speech or writing
Antonyms
How Indirect
- Literature
- Archaic
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7.3
1
4.9
14
4.3
264
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ambagious comes from an old word ambage that meant a 'roundabout path' or 'going around'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture someone going in circles instead of answering a question, so ambagious means language that is 'roundabout' or 'indirect'.