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Circuitous

//sɜːˈkjuːɪtəs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not direct or to the point.
  2. 2
    Being a long and winding route.

    "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."

Adjective
  1. 1
    deviating from a straight course wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1664. From Latin circuitōsus, from circuitus, from circumeō (“I go around”), from circum (“around”) + eō (“I go”). By surface analysis, circuit + -ous.

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