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Definition of Circuitous

1. Adjective. Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct. "Hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

2. Adjective. Deviating from a straight course. "A roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

Definition of Circuitous

1. a. Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.

Definition of Circuitous

1. Adjective. Not direct or to the point. ¹

2. Adjective. Of a long and winding route. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Circuitous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circuitous

circuit court circuit court of appeals circuit courts circuit race circuit rider circuit slugger circuit training circuital circuited circuiter

circuiters circuities circuiting circuition circuitions circuitous (current term) circuitously circuitousness circuitries circuitry

circuits circuity circulable circulant circulants circular-knit circular DNA circular amputation circular anastomosis

Literary usage of Circuitous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1824)
"V. circuitous JOURNEY, ON THE SEA, TO KUMLINGE. The Author determines to undertake the Southern circuitous Route—Introduces his Personal Narrative of that ..."

2. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"On the Rectification of the Hyperbola by Means of Two Ellipses; proving that Method to be circuitous, and such as requires much more Calculation than is ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"... even when circuitous and difficult, rather than resort to land-car- The great value of the fur trade in this vast region is so well known that it is not ..."

4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1905)
"As such a miracle, however, was impossible, we went by the circuitous route which turns the flank of the ravine, and finally by a series of long, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson, John Dove Wilson (1865)
"But if there is no such exchange, either direct or circuitous, re-exchange cannot be claimed, because the holder of the bill could not have incurred any (d) ..."

6. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"... Trade with all nations — circuitous exchange as effective as direct — Fluctuations in exchange — The economy of this mode of payment increases trade. ..."

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