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complicated
Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
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  1. Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
  2. Made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.
  3. Not easy to understand or analyze because of being intricate:
roundabout
Indirect; circuitous:
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  1. Indirect; circuitous:
  2. Not straight or straightforward; indirect; circuitous
  3. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or vagueness:
devious
Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
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  1. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
  2. Deviating from the proper or usual course; going astray
  3. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
anfractuous
Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
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  1. Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
circular
Moving in or forming a circle.
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  1. Moving in or forming a circle.
  2. In the shape of a circle; round
  3. Using a premise to prove a conclusion that in turn is used to prove the premise:
devious
Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
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  1. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
  2. Away from a main road or course; distant or removed.
  3. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
indirect
Not directly planned for; secondary:
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  1. Not directly planned for; secondary:
  2. Not direct
  3. Reporting the exact or approximate words of another with such changes as are necessary to bring the original statement into grammatical conformity with the sentence in which it is included:
oblique
(Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
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  1. (Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
  2. (Bot.) Having the sides unequal, as some leaves
  3. (Geom.) With its axis not perpendicular to its base
roundabout
Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
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  1. Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
  2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or vagueness:
  3. Not straight or straightforward; indirect; circuitous
tortuous
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting:
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  1. Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting:
  2. Highly involved; complex:
  3. Not straightforward; circuitous; devious:
Find another word for circuitous. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for circuitous, like: complicated, roundabout, devious, meandering, indirect, anfractuous, circular, devious, indirect, oblique and roundabout.

Sentence Examples

  • They moved on, taking circuitous routes back to the underground entrance in case they were being watched.

  • Our human thought pursues devious and circuitous methods.

  • Those that flow directly into the lake are short, but some of the rivers of this region, such as the Cuyahoga and the'Grand, are turned by drift ridges into circuitous courses and flow through narrow valleys with numerous falls and rapids.

  • Louis VII., who now appeared, was induced by this failure to take the long and circuitous route by the west coast of Asia Minor; but even so he had lost the majority of his troops when he reached the Holy Land in 1148.

  • It is approached in a very circuitous way, either by a passage (Xaupn) leading from a side door in the main propylaeum or by another long passage which winds round the back cf the chief hall, and so leads by a long flight of steps, cut in the rock, to the little postern door in the semicircular bastion.

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