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| Main Entry: | circuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going around, indirect |
| Synonyms: | back road, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, ambagious, by way of, long way, long way around, winding around |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, in line |
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| Main Entry: | collateral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, secondary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accompanying, ancillary, attendant, auxiliary, circuitous, coincident, complementary, concomitant, concurrent, coordinate, corresponding, corroborative, dependent, incident, lateral, parallel, related, roundabout, satellite, side, sub, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, supporting, tributary, under, added, adjunctive, adjuvant, appurtenant, confirmatory, not lineal |
| Antonyms: | chief, direct, main, primary, principal |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, circular, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, tortuous, circumlocutory, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way |
| Antonyms: | direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | serpentine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding; sly |
| Synonyms: | artful, cagey, circuitous, clever, convoluted, crafty, cunning, curved, foxy, indirect, meandering, shrewd, sinuous, slick, slinky, snaky*, subtle, supple, wily, anfractuous, coiling, curvy, mazy, meandrous, snakelike, twisting, twisting and turning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, devious, indirect, meandering, serpentine, snaky*, supple, tortuous, undulating, vagrant, anfractuous, coiling, curvy, deviative, flexuous, meandrous, twisting and turning |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwisted, unwinding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bending, turning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, devious, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, zigzag, anfractuous, curving, flexuous, gyrating, mazy, spiraling, twisting, wriggly |
| Antonyms: | straight, unbent |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | involved, intricate |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, complicated, composite, compound, confused, conglomerate, convoluted, elaborate, heterogeneous, knotty, labyrinthine, manifold, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed-up, mosaic, motley, multifarious, multiple, tangled, tortuous, variegated, compounded, entangled, mingled, multiform, multiplex |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Antonyms: | clear, easy, evident, homogeneous, obvious, plain, simple, uniform |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | angular, awry, bowed, circuitous, cockeyed*, crippled, curved, deformed, deviating, devious, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, indirect, irregular, kinky, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, oblique, rambling, roundabout, screwy*, serpentine, sinuous, slanted, snaky, spiral, topsy-turvy*, tortuous, twisted, uneven, winding, zigzag, agee, anfractuous, asymmetric, catawampus, contorted, curving, disfigured, incurving, knurly, not straight, out of shape, skewed, tilted, tortile, twisting, warped |
| Antonyms: | straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, wordy |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, prolix, periphrastic |
| Antonyms: | connected, direct, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | tortuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very twisted |
| Synonyms: | bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, indirect, labyrinthine, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, winding, zigzag, anfractuous, flexuous, involute, mazy, meandrous, twisting, vermiculate |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, meandering, mixed, muddled, obscure, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, sinuous, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding, Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, bewildering, crabbed, entangled, mazy, mingled, paradoxical, round-about, snarled |
| Antonyms: | apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confusing, deviating, errant, erratic, excursive, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, wandering, confounding, curving, detouring, digressing, digressory, diverting, flexuous, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, evasive |
| Synonyms: | backhanded, circuitous, circular, collateral, devious, implied, obscure, roundabout, vague, circumlocutory, obliquitous, sidelong |
| Antonyms: | direct, forthright, straightforward |
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| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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aberrant, abnormal, abnormous, absonant, ambagious, amorphous, amphibious, androgynal, androgynous, anomalistic, anomalous, arbitrary, azygous, circuitous, crablike, curious, denaturalized, desultory, deviating, devious, diffluent, discursive, eccentric, egregious, epicene, errabund, errant, erratic, exceptional, exclusive, excursive, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, farblondzhet, grotesque, heteroclite, heterogeneous, hybrid, hypotypic, indirect, informal, irregular, lawless, misplaced, mongrel, monstrous, non-union, nondescript, noteworthy, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, quaint, qualified, queer, rambling, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, stray, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, uncustomary, undescribed, undirected, unexampled, unusual, unwonted, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wonderful, zigzag
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| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Byzantine, Machiavellian, acute, arch, artful, artificial, astute, cagey, calculated, callid, canny, captious, cautelous, circuitous, cloak-and-dagger, contriving, convoluted, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, diplomatic, disingenuous, feline, insidious, intriguing, knowing, leery, lubricious, pawky, politic, political, profound, sharp, shrewd, skilful, slippery, sly, sneckdrawing, sportive, stealthy, strategic, subdolous, subtle, surreptitious, tactical, thick, tricksy, tricky, underhand, unwholesome, vafrous, venal, vulpine, wily
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| Main Entry: | dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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straight, universal, aberrant, actinoid, aligned, allover, ascending, back-and-forth, bidirectional, bilateral, bilevel, broad, centrifugal, centripetal, chockablock, circuitous, circumambient, clockwise, coast-to-coast, counterclockwise, cross-country, dangling, descending, dextral, diagonal, direct, directional, divergent, diverging, ectad, edgewise, encircling, equiangular, equilateral, extensive, falling, forrit, frontal, geocentric, geodesic, high, horizontal, inclined, indirect, infinite, isometric, isosceles, latitudinal, left, level, linear, long, long-distance, longitudinal, multilateral, nationwide, oblique, obtuse, out-of-bounds, outward, patulous, pervasive, prolate, protracted, quaquaversal, radial, radiant, radiating, rectilinear, retroflex, retrograde, reverse, right, ringed, rising, rotary, sinistral, statewide, straightforward, stratified, symmetrical, syntropic, tabular, tangential, three-dimensional, to-and-fro, two-dimensional, ubiquitous, uniaxial, unidirectional, unilateral, unsymmetrical, up-and-down, upright, vertical, wide, worldwide
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| Main Entry: | winding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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winding, anfractuous, anguilliform, buckled, cincinate, circling, circuitous, circumfluent, circumforaneous, coiled, complicated, contortuplicate, convoluted, crispate, daedalian, flexous, frizzly, helical, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, mazelike, mazy, pampiniform, peristaltic, perplexed, raveled, rivulose, roundabout, serpentiform, sigmoidal, sinuous, snake, spiral, spirated, torquated, tortile, tortive, tortuous, turbinate, turbinated, turning, twisted, undated, undee, undulatory, vermicular, vermiform, volute, wavy, whorled, wreathy, zigzag
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