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circuitous 音標拼音: [sɚkj'uɪtəs] a. 迂回的路的,迂曲的,繞行的 迂回的路的,迂曲的,繞行的 circuitous adj 1: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; " the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; " a roundabout paragraph"; " hear in a roundabout way that her ex- husband was marrying her best friend" [ synonym: { circuitous}, { roundabout}] 2: deviating from a straight course; " a scenic but devious route"; " a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; " a roundabout route avoided rush- hour traffic" [ synonym: { devious}, { circuitous}, { roundabout}] Circuitous \ Cir* cu" i* tous\, a. [ LL. circuitosus.] Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end. -- { Cir* cu" i* tous* ly}, adv. -- { Cir* cu" i* tous* ness}, n. Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " circuitous": O- shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand, backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral, convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose, flexuous, helical, indirect, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, left- handed, mazy, meandering, meandrous, oblique, orbital, out- of- the- way, periphrastic, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulose, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag
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