WordNet: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic); "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"

• similar to indirect

ambagious

• (englanti) ambage (derivationally related)
• (suomi) epäsuora (synonyymi)

circumlocutious

• (englanti) circumlocution (derivationally related)

• (englanti) circumlocution (derivationally related)
• (suomi) kiertelevä (synonyymi)

circumlocutory

• (suomi) monisanainen (synonyymi)

periphrastic

• (englanti) periphrasis (derivationally related)
• (suomi) perifrastinen (synonyymi)