5 April 2015

circumlocution

[sur-kuh m-loh-kyoo-shuh n]

noun
1. a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
2. a roundabout expression.

Origin of circumlocution

late Middle English Latin

1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin circumlocūtiōn- (stem of circumlocūtiō). See circum-, locution

Related forms
circumlocutory [sur-kuh m-lok-yuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], circumlocutional, circumlocutionary, adjective
uncircumlocutory, adjective

Synonyms
1. rambling, meandering, verbosity, prolixity.

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Anagram

comic uncoil rut
occur tunic limo

Today’s aphorism

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean.

– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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5 April 1997 – death of Allen Ginsberg, leading American beat-generation writer and poet. Born 3 June 1926.