| Main Entry: | circumlocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect speech |
| Synonyms: | beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness, discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology, verbal evasion, verbality, verbiage, wordiness |
| Antonyms: | conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness |