CIRCULAR


Meaning of CIRCULAR in English

adj. 1 round, disc-shaped or chiefly US disk-shaped, disc-like or chiefly US disk-like, discoid; ring-shaped, ring-like, annular Notice the circular pattern of growth of this ivy 2 roundabout, indirect, circuitous, tortuous, twisting, twisted, anfractuous; periphrastic, circumlocutory; devious We had to take a circular route because the road was closed Why can't she say what she means instead of being so circular? 3 illogical, inconsistent, redundant, fallacious, irrational, Formal sophistic or sophistical To say that you exist because you think and that you think because you exist is an example of circular reasoning

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