ambagious

[ am-bey-juhs ]

adjective

1. roundabout; circuitous:

   ambagious reasoning.

Other Words From

• am·bagious·ly adverb
• am·bagious·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambagious¹

1650–60; < Latin ambāgiōsus, equivalent to ambāgi- (stem of ambāgēs ambages ) + -ōsus -ous

Example Sentences

And sodeinly turning my backe, as fast as I could runne, I conueighed my fearefull bodie by the helpe of my swift pacing feete, into the inward part of the darke places, penetrating through diuers crooked torments, ambagious passages and vnknowne waies.

From Project Gutenberg

Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• devious
• labyrinthine
• meandering
• rambling
• tortuous