首页英语词典ambagiousambagious英英释义

ambagious

[æm'bedʒəs]
  • adj. 迂远的

英英释意


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."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)