- Types Of Speech
- You can use circuitous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Circuitous
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters c, i, o, r, s, t, and u, 5 consonants, 5 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ui. Circuitous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, ci, cir, circ, circu, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, tous, itous, ..
- Definition
- 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"
- School Grade
- Circuitous is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with s, 3 syllables, 5 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Circuitous in Pig Latin is said as "ircuitouscay or ircuitouscway".
- Unigram
- c | i | r | c | u | i | t | o | u | s
- Bigram
- ci | ir | rc | cu | ui | it | to | ou | us
- Trigram
- cir | irc | rcu | cui | uit | ito | tou | ous
- Quadrigram
- circ | ircu | rcui | cuit | uito | itou | tous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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" - 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"
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Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
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Aimless | aimlessly drifting |
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Ambagious | 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 meaning |
Ambidextrous | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill "a double-dealing double agent" "a double-faced infernal traitor and |
Amoral | without moral standards or principles "a completely amoral person" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Circuitous
Anagram | Definition |
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Circuitous | 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" |
View English words with the unique letters used in circuitous. Words With The Letters Ciorstu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Indirect | not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in sailing" |
Circuitous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters