ambagious

[am-bey-juhs]

adjective

roundabout; circuitous: ambagious reasoning.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin ambāgiōsus, equivalent to ambāgi- (stem of ambāgēs ambages) + -ōsus -ous

Related forms

am·ba·gious·ly, adverb

am·ba·gious·ness, noun

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Ambagious is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

WordNet

ambagious
adjective
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]

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