Circuitous way
1circuitous — I adjective ambagious, anfractuous, anguilliform, anguine, circumfluent, circumambulating, circumfluous, circumlocutory, complicated, contorted, convoluted, convolution, crooked, curved, deviating, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, eel… …
2circuitous — [adj] going around, indirect back road*, by way of, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, long way*, long way around*, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, winding around; concepts 544,581 Ant. direct, in line …
3way — n 1 Way, route, course, passage, pass, artery mean, in common, a track or path traversed in going from one place to another. Way is general and inclusive of any track or path; it can specifically signify a thoroughfare especially in combinations… …
4circuitous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a route) longer than the most direct way. DERIVATIVES circuitously adverb circuitousness noun …
5circuitous — cir|cu|i|tous [sə:ˈkju:ıtəs US sə:r ] adj going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way ▪ a hard, circuitous hike >circuitously adv …
6circuitous — adjective circuitous route/course etc a way of getting from one place to another that is longer than the most direct way circuitously adverb …
7circuitous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. complicated, roundabout, devious, meandering; see indirect . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [sur KYOO i tus] roundabout or indirect. Much to my irritation, the cabbie took a circuitous route to the… …
8circuitous — Synonyms and related words: O shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand, backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral, convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative,… …
9circuitous — [sə: kju:ɪtəs] adjective (of a route) longer than the most direct way. Derivatives circuitously adverb circuitousness noun …
10circuitous — adj. 1 indirect (and usu. long). 2 going a long way round. Derivatives: circuitously adv. circuitousness n. Etymology: med.L circuitosus f. circuitus CIRCUIT …
