AMBAGIOUS
\ambˈad͡ʒəs], \ambˈadʒəs], \a_m_b_ˈa_dʒ_ə_s]\
Definitions of AMBAGIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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 meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
By Princeton University
