[syn: devious, circuitous, roundabout]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Circuitous \Cir*cu"i*tous\, a. [LL. circuitosus.]
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a
circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
-- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.
Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
circuitous
adj 1: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or
conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling";
"a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that
her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" [syn:
circuitous, roundabout]
2: deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious
route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a
roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: devious,
circuitous, roundabout]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "circuitous":
O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand,
backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral,
convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant,
deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive,
divagational, divergent, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose,
flexuous, helical, indirect, involute, involuted, involutional,
labyrinthine, left-handed, mazy, meandering, meandrous, oblique,
orbital, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, planetary, rambling, rivose,
rivulose, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine,
shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuate, sinuose,
sinuous, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, torsional, tortile,
tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering,
wandering, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag