circuitous

Speech parts

1. circuitous - Adjective

2. circuitous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

roundabout tortuous serpentine indirect winding devious sinuous crooked sigmoid ungainly wiggly turning complicated circular orbital
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Antonyms

frank curt foursquare god-fearing elliptic bluff
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Phrases with the word

circuitous route circuitous way

Examples

All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself. Marcus Aurelius

I came to acting in a very circuitous way. Victoria Pratt

The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits. E. O. Wilson

The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden Alice, had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world. Philip José Farmer

It was a long, circuitous route from my mom's real estate business to Netflix. It didn't happen overnight. Or in a year. Or even in ten years. But it happened. Marc Randolph

It is often better to go by a circuitous than by a direct path. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

circuiter circuiting circuition circuitous route circuitous way circuitously