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ambages
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(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
related words >
anfractuosity
,
bypass
,
circuit
,
circuitousness
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
circumvolution
,
convolution
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
detour
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
excursion
,
flexuosity
,
flexuousness
,
indirection
,
intorsion
,
involution
,
meander
,
meandering
,
obliqueness
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
rivulation
,
roundabout
,
roundabout way
,
roundaboutness
,
sinuation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
slinkiness
,
snakiness
,
torsion
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
turning
,
twisting
,
undulation
,
wave
,
waving
,
winding
beat around the bush
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be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
related words >
about the bush
,
around the bush
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
circumlocute
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
go round about
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
periphrase
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quibble
,
recoil
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shrink
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
step aside
,
swerve
,
tergiversate
,
ward off
verbiage
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overabundance of words
related words >
choice of words
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
cloud of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expansiveness
,
expression
,
floridity
,
floridness
,
flow of words
,
flux of words
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
locution
,
logorrhea
,
long-windedness
,
longiloquence
,
nimiety
,
parlance
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
pleonasm
,
prolixity
,
redundancy
,
repetition
,
rhetoric
,
roundabout
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
talk
,
talkativeness
,
tautology
,
thesaurus
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbality
,
verbosity
,
vocabulary
,
wordage
,
wordhoard
,
wordiness
,
wording
,
words
circumlocution
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an indirect way of expressing something
a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
related words >
ambages
,
anfractuosity
,
circling
,
circuition
,
circuitousness
,
circuitry
,
circularity
,
circulation
,
circumambages
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumambulation
,
circumbendibus
,
circumflexion
,
circummigration
,
circumnavigation
,
circumvolution
,
convolution
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
flexuosity
,
flexuousness
,
gyre
,
gyring
,
indirection
,
intorsion
,
involution
,
meander
,
meandering
,
obliqueness
,
orbit
,
orbiting
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
pleonasm
,
redundancy
,
rivulation
,
roundabout
,
roundaboutness
,
rounding
,
sinuation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
slinkiness
,
snakiness
,
spiral
,
spiraling
,
tautology
,
torsion
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
turn
,
turning
,
twisting
,
undulation
,
verbality
,
wave
,
waving
,
wheeling
,
winding
tautology
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useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
(logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology"
related words >
abundance
,
amplitude
,
battology
,
bedizenment
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
cloud of words
,
copiousness
,
diffuseness
,
diffusion
,
diffusiveness
,
duplication
,
duplication of effort
,
effusion
,
effusiveness
,
embellishment
,
expletive
,
extravagance
,
exuberance
,
fat
,
featherbedding
,
fecundity
,
fertility
,
filling
,
fluency
,
formlessness
,
frill
,
frills
,
frippery
,
gingerbread
,
gush
,
gushing
,
iteration
,
logorrhea
,
long-windedness
,
luxury
,
macrology
,
needlessness
,
ornamentation
,
outpour
,
overadornment
,
overflow
,
overlap
,
padding
,
palilogy
,
payroll padding
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
pleonasm
,
prodigality
,
productivity
,
profuseness
,
profusion
,
prolificacy
,
prolificity
,
prolixity
,
rampancy
,
rankness
,
redundance
,
redundancy
,
reiteration
,
reiterativeness
,
repetition
,
repetition for effect
,
repetitiousness
,
repetitiveness
,
roundabout
,
stammering
,
stuttering
,
superabundance
,
superfluity
,
superfluousness
,
superflux
,
talkativeness
,
tautologism
,
teemingness
,
tirade
,
unnecessariness
,
verbality
,
verbiage
,
verbosity
,
wordiness
indirection
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deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
ambages
,
artfulness
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
cheat
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
circling
,
circuition
,
circuitousness
,
circuitry
,
circularity
,
circulation
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumambulation
,
circumflexion
,
circumlocution
,
circummigration
,
circumnavigation
,
corner
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
craft
,
criminality
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crosswiseness
,
cunning
,
curve
,
deceit
,
deceitfulness
,
declination
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
diagonality
,
digression
,
dirt
,
discursion
,
dishonesty
,
dishonor
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
double-dealing
,
drift
,
drifting
,
dupery
,
duplicity
,
errantry
,
evasiveness
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
falseheartedness
,
falseness
,
feloniousness
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
furtiveness
,
guile
,
gyre
,
gyring
,
hairpin
,
hanky-panky
,
hypocrisy
,
improbity
,
indirectness
,
insidiousness
,
meandering
,
nonconformity
,
obliqueness
,
obliquity
,
orbit
,
orbiting
,
pererration
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
rambling
,
roundaboutness
,
rounding
,
shadiness
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shiftiness
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
skewness
,
slant
,
slipperiness
,
sneak attack
,
sneakiness
,
spiral
,
spiraling
,
squint
,
straying
,
surreptitiousness
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
tack
,
transverseness
,
treacherousness
,
trickiness
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unsavoriness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
,
vagary
,
variation
,
veer
,
wandering
,
warp
,
wheeling
,
yaw
,
zigzag
redundancy
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repetition of an act needlessly
the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
related words >
EDP
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abundance
,
amplitude
,
avalanche
,
battology
,
bedizenment
,
bit
,
channel
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
cloud of words
,
communication explosion
,
communication theory
,
copiousness
,
data retrieval
,
data storage
,
decoding
,
deluge
,
diffuseness
,
diffusion
,
diffusiveness
,
duplication
,
duplication of effort
,
effusion
,
effusiveness
,
electronic data processing
,
embarras de richesses
,
embellishment
,
encoding
,
enough
,
entropy
,
excess
,
expletive
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
exuberance
,
fat
,
featherbedding
,
fecundity
,
fertility
,
filling
,
flatulence
,
flood
,
fluency
,
formlessness
,
frill
,
frills
,
frippery
,
gingerbread
,
gush
,
gushing
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
information theory
,
inundation
,
landslide
,
lavishness
,
logorrhea
,
luxury
,
macrology
,
money to burn
,
more than enough
,
needlessness
,
noise
,
ornamentation
,
outpour
,
overabundance
,
overaccumulation
,
overadornment
,
overage
,
overbounteousness
,
overcopiousness
,
overdose
,
overflow
,
overlap
,
overlavishness
,
overluxuriance
,
overmeasure
,
overmuchness
,
overnumerousness
,
overplentifulness
,
overplenty
,
overplus
,
overpopulation
,
overprofusion
,
oversufficiency
,
oversupply
,
padding
,
palilogy
,
payroll padding
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
plenty
,
pleonasm
,
plethora
,
prodigality
,
productivity
,
profuseness
,
profusion
,
prolificacy
,
prolificity
,
prolixity
,
rampancy
,
rankness
,
redundance
,
reiteration
,
reiterativeness
,
repetition for effect
,
repetitiveness
,
roundabout
,
signal
,
spate
,
stammering
,
stuttering
,
superabundance
,
superfluity
,
superfluousness
,
superflux
,
surplus
,
surplusage
,
talkativeness
,
tautologism
,
tautology
,
teemingness
,
tirade
,
tumidity
,
turgidity
,
unnecessariness
,
verbality
,
verbosity
roundabout
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related words >
Byzantine
,
Ferris wheel
,
O-shaped
,
ambages
,
ambagious
,
ambient
,
anfractuous
,
apparent
,
backhanded
,
balled up
,
bypass
,
carousel
,
chubby
,
chute-the-chutes
,
chutes
,
circling
,
circuit
,
circuitous
,
circular
,
circumambages
,
circumambient
,
circumbendibus
,
circumferential
,
circumflex
,
circumfluent
,
circumfluous
,
circumjacent
,
circumlocution
,
circumlocutional
,
circumlocutory
,
collateral
,
complex
,
complicated
,
confounded
,
confused
,
convoluted
,
convolutional
,
cortical
,
crabbed
,
daedal
,
detour
,
deviating
,
deviation
,
deviative
,
devious
,
digression
,
digressive
,
discursive
,
disk
,
elaborate
,
embracing
,
embrangled
,
encircling
,
enclosing
,
encompassing
,
enfolding
,
entangled
,
enveloping
,
environing
,
epidermic
,
evasive
,
excursion
,
excursive
,
exomorphic
,
exterior
,
external
,
extrinsic
,
flexuose
,
flexuous
,
flying horses
,
fouled up
,
fringe
,
helical
,
implicated
,
indirect
,
intricate
,
involute
,
involuted
,
involutional
,
involved
,
jaunt
,
junket
,
knotted
,
labyrinthian
,
labyrinthine
,
long
,
loused up
,
many-faceted
,
matted
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
meandrous
,
merry-go-round
,
messed up
,
mixed up
,
mucked up
,
multifarious
,
neighboring
,
oblique
,
open
,
orbital
,
out
,
out-of-the-way
,
outer
,
outermost
,
outing
,
outlying
,
outmost
,
outside
,
outstanding
,
outward
,
outward-facing
,
peripheral
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
periphrastic
,
perplexed
,
pleonasm
,
plump
,
podgy
,
public
,
pudgy
,
ramified
,
redundancy
,
rivose
,
rivulose
,
roller
,
roller coaster
,
rolling stone
,
roly-poly
,
rotary
,
rotator
,
rotor
,
round
,
round trip
,
roundabout way
,
ruffled
,
runaround
,
rundle
,
sally
,
screwed up
,
seeming
,
seesaw
,
serpentine
,
sinuate
,
sinuose
,
sinuous
,
snaky
,
snarled
,
spiral
,
subtle
,
suburban
,
superficial
,
surface
,
surrounding
,
swing
,
tangled
,
tangly
,
tautology
,
teeter-totter
,
top
,
torsional
,
tortile
,
tortuous
,
traffic circle
,
tubby
,
turning
,
twisted
,
twisting
,
twisty
,
verbality
,
wheel
,
whip
,
whirlabout
,
whirler
,
whirligig
,
whorled
,
winding
,
wrapping
,
wreathlike
,
wreathy
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