ambagious

1. 1.

   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.”

   Synonymscircumlocutiouscircumlocutoryperiphrastic

   Similarindirect

Questions about ambagious

What does ambagious mean?

ambagious means "roundabout and unnecessarily wordy".

How many syllables are in ambagious?

ambagious has 4 syllables: am-ba-gi-ous. The stress falls on "gi".

What is another word for ambagious?

Close synonyms include circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambagious a common word?

ambagious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.