The train made a circuitous route back to the city center every day.
Source: tatoeba (10890247)
Circuitous
//sɜːˈkjuːɪtəs//
Synonyms for "circuitous" (89 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Synonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- обиколен adj (not direct or to the point)
- обиколен adj (being a long and winding route)
- околен adj (being a long and winding route)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 迂迴 /迂回 adj (being a long and winding route)
Dutch
1 entries- omslachtig adj (not direct or to the point)
Finnish
3 entries- epäsuora adj (not direct or to the point)
- kaarteleva adj (being a long and winding route)
- kiertelevä adj (being a long and winding route)
French
1 entries- tortueux adj (being a long and winding route)
German
4 entries- indirekt adj (not direct or to the point)
- sich windend adj (being a long and winding route)
- umschweifend adj (not direct or to the point)
- umständlich adj (not direct or to the point)
Italian
1 entries- tortuoso adj (not direct or to the point)
Māori
1 entries- āwhiowhio adj (not direct or to the point)
Polish
1 entries- okrężny adj (not direct or to the point)
Russian
3 entries- окольно adj (not direct or to the point)
- окольный adj (being a long and winding route)
- петляющий adj (being a long and winding route)
Spanish
1 entries- tortuoso adj (being a long and winding route)
Swedish
1 entries- omständlig adj (not direct or to the point)
Yoruba
1 entries- kọ́lọkọ̀lọ adj (being a long and winding route)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Since the trail is so circuitous, it sometimes feels like you aren't getting any closer to the peak.
Source: tatoeba (13627762)
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.
Source: wiktionary
The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.