roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings "-T S Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory
formed by the use of function words or auxiliaries instead of by inflection In other words, stated in other words
Using a phrase with more words than necessary for a simple direct expression; tending to expression in a drawn out roundabout manner