Noun: circumlocution ,sur-kum-low'kyoo-shun or ,sur-kum-lu'kyoo-shun
- A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
"His circumlocution made the simple message unnecessarily complex";
- periphrasis, ambage [archaic]
- An indirect way of expressing something
"His comment about the weather was a circumlocution of his dissatisfaction with the meeting";
- indirect expression
Derived forms: circumlocutions
Type of: equivocation, evasion, verboseness, verbosity
Encyclopedia: Circumlocution