circuitous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- circuitously adverb
- circuitousness noun
- noncircuitous adjective
- noncircuitously adverb
- noncircuitousness noun
- uncircuitous adjective
- uncircuitously adverb
- uncircuitousness noun
Etymology
Origin of circuitous
1655–65; < Medieval Latin circuitōsus, equivalent to circuit ( us ) circuit + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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When he eventually left in late 2015, he didn’t have to take a route nearly as circuitous as Cignetti’s to the top of the coaching ranks.
The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.
His seamless design emerges only gradually and circuitously.
People travelling between Al-Eizariya and Jerusalem would have to take a circuitous route three times longer than the present journey, he said.
From Barron's
“The Best Years of Our Lives” centers on three G.I.s who meet on their circuitous way home to Boone City, the fictional Midwest metropolis that’s the movie’s setting.
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