circumlocutory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cir=cum=loc=u=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

circumlocutory, a. 

 Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.  Shenstone.  [1913 Webster]
"The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

circumlocutory

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.