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The definition of circuitous is something oblique, roundabout or longer than the most direct way.

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Discussion that goes around and around the problem without ever talking about or addressing it directly is an example of something that would be described as circuitous.

See circuitous in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

roundabout; indirect; devious

Origin: ML circuitosus < L circuitus: see circuit

Related Forms:

circuitously adverb
circuitousness noun

See circuitous in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course: took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site.

Origin:

Origin: From Medieval Latin circuitōsus

Origin: , from Latin circuitus, a going around; see circuit

Related Forms:

cir·cuˈi·tous·ly adverb

cir·cuˈi·ty, cir·cuˈi·tous·ness noun

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