Circuitous Definition

sər-kyo͝oĭ-təs
adjective
Roundabout; indirect; devious.
Webster's New World
Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language.
A circuitous method of inquiry; a circuitous argument.
American Heritage
The definition of circuitous is something oblique, roundabout or longer than the most direct way.
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.
YourDictionary

Not direct or to the point.

Wiktionary

Of a long and winding route.

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Origin of Circuitous

  • First attested in 1664. From Latin circuitōsus, from circuitus, from circumeō "I go around", from circum "around + "I go"

    From Wiktionary

  • From Medieval Latin circuitōsus from Latin circuitus a going around circuit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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