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Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Meaning of "circuitous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CIRCUITOUS

circuitous  [səˈkjuːɪtəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CIRCUITOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Circuitous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CIRCUITOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of circuitous in the English dictionary

The definition of circuitous in the dictionary is indirect and lengthy; roundabout.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CIRCUITOUS


apparatus
ˌæpəˈreɪtəs
coitus
ˈkəʊɪtəs
comitatus
ˌkɒmɪˈteɪtəs
cubitus
ˈkjuːbɪtəs
detritus
dɪˈtraɪtəs
duplicitous
djuːˈplɪsɪtəs
emeritus
ɪˈmɛrɪtəs
fatuitous
fəˈtjuːɪtəs
fortuitous
fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs
gratuitous
ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəs
habitus
ˈhæbɪtəs
hiatus
haɪˈeɪtəs
impetus
ˈɪmpɪtəs
situs
ˈsaɪtəs
status
ˈsteɪtəs
stratus
ˈstreɪtəs
tinnitus
ˈtɪnɪtəs
Titus
ˈtaɪtəs
ubiquitous
juːˈbɪkwɪtəs
Vitus
ˈvaɪtəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CIRCUITOUS

circuit
circuit binding
circuit board
circuit breaker
circuit court
circuit judge
circuit rider
circuit training
circuital
circuiteer
circuities
circuitously
circuitousness
circuitry
circuity
circulable
circular
circular breathing
circular function
circular measure

WORDS THAT END LIKE CIRCUITOUS

acclivitous
alacritous
ancipitous
calamitous
complicitous
compositous
declivitous
felicitous
heteroclitous
infelicitous
iniquitous
momentous
necessitous
precipitous
pyritous
serendipitous
solicitous
spiritous
strepitous
unsolicitous
vomitous

Synonyms and antonyms of circuitous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CIRCUITOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «circuitous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of circuitous

Translation of «circuitous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CIRCUITOUS

Find out the translation of circuitous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of circuitous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «circuitous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迂回
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tortuosa
570 millions of speakers

English

circuitous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घुमावदार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

موارب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

окольный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tortuoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বক্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

détourné
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Litar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weitschweifig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

回りくどい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우회
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Circuitous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quanh co
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றுப்பாதையைத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घुमट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolambaçlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tortuoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

okrężną
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обхідний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ocolită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλαγίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omslachtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

circuitous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

circuitous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of circuitous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CIRCUITOUS»

The term «circuitous» is regularly used and occupies the 100.123 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about circuitous

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3 QUOTES WITH «CIRCUITOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word circuitous.
1
Denise Di Novi
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
2
Victoria Pratt
I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Theodore Isaac Rubin
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCUITOUS»

Discover the use of circuitous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to circuitous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography
The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan).
David J. Leigh, 2000
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The Rules of Victory: How to Transform Chaos and ...
Employing shih in the way the text tells us—in this case, transforming the circuitous and direct—starts with working more skillfully with those circuitous moments we encounter in our campaigns. Making the circuitous direct—turning obstacles ...
James Gimian, Barry Boyce, 2009
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Garner's Modern American Usage
✳Cypher is a primarily BrE variant. circuitous; circuity. See circumlocution (a). circularize began as a mid-19th-century neologism meaning “to send circulars to” <all the local business owners were circularized>. By extension, it came to mean  ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
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The Oriental Herald
East India. Monopoly.— Circuitous Trade. All who have devoted much time to the consideration of our relations with Asia, and who nave attempted to arrange, under appropriate heads, the matters which have crowded on their attention, must ...
5
Railroads: Rates-Service-Management
It is doubtful if any railroad manager would long care to pay for the privilege of hauling traffic around Robin Hood's barn. To permit charging a higher rate at an intermediate point on a circuitous route is not necessarily in violation of the distance ...
Homer Bews Vanderblue, Kenneth Farwell Burgess, 2000
6
The Parliamentary Review and Family Magazine
THE COMMERCIAL ENQUIRER. • .1 • .□ ON THE EAST TNDIA MONOPOLY— ADVANTAGES OF THE CIRCUITOUS TRADE FROM INDIA TO CHINA. Aix who have devoted much time to the consideration of our relations with Asia, and who  ...
7
Proceedings of the Commercial Convention of the states of ...
Taken in the aggregate, nine- tenths of their exports are direct, and one- tenth circuitous ; while of their imports, on the same assumption, only 2 parts are direct and 7 circuitous, subject to all the expense and burthens incident to such ...
‎1839
8
Railroads, Rates and Regulations
"Now a great deal has been said, chiefly on the outside, about the Canadian Pacific Railway seeking by its long, circuitous and broken route to share in a tonnage as against more direct and shorter lines all rail, and I propose to show to you ...
William Z. Ripley, 1912
9
A Circuitous Spiritual Journey: A Memoir
"Dedicated to the Friars Minor of the Immaculate Conception Province for all the encouragement and support they have given us over the past 40 years"--p. [3].
James Curran (O.S.F.), 2010
10
The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments ...
This strategy is a circuitous method by which a psychoanalytic subject generates an effect different than its psychical origin would otherwise suggest. The perverse strategy is "a mental strategy," according to Kaplan, "that uses one or another ...
Laura Hinton, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCUITOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term circuitous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kirk Nieuwenhuis back with Mets after circuitous route
Outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis has traveled across the country this season, but he's right back where he started: with the New York Mets. «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Sevier County to file hardship on behalf of Dorian Banks
Banks' route through high school football has been circuitous. He played his freshman season at Ezell-Harding, transferred to Sevier County as ... «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
Frazier cleared to join Tigers
His path to Missouri has been a circuitous one. Frazier originally signed with UNLV out of Portland's David Douglas High School in 2012 but ... «Columbia Daily Tribune, Jul 15»
4
No, it's not that Luis Perdomo
How got there was circuitous. The Cardinals left Perdomo unprotected in the Rule 5 draft. The San Francisco Giants claimed him and kept him ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
5
Paul Montgrain is a girl's best friend
Montgrain got into graffiti removal by a circuitous route. SFP manufactures cedar decks and saunas and for some time has treated them with ... «SooToday.com, Jul 15»
6
Bounce Queen Big Freedia and the Scribe
Her circuitous route through the industry involved bylines in Parenting and Vibe and a stint at New Groove Alliance, where she promoted the ... «East Bay Express, Jul 15»
7
Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America's outsiders
Her route to the priesthood was circuitous — via alcoholism and stand-up comedy — and she uses her story to engage fellow "outsiders" who ... «PRI, Jul 15»
8
Gay marriage, Obamacare, Confederate flag comes down - a …
... needed regarding a dark chapter within our past, we continue along the difficult and circuitous path toward our goal of a more perfect union. «PennLive.com, Jul 15»
9
After bitter battle over Kafka's papers, a daunting task: Tracking them …
This circuitous deal violated Brod's will: He ordered that his estate be given to a public archive – rather than being sold at public auction to the ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
10
Memorializing New York's Municipal Slave Market
... do it through the Parks Service without needing it to have force of law, which would only add more to the circuitous [city council] bureaucracy. «In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column, Jul 15»

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