Ambagious

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
     Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  ambagious
       adj : 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}]