Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

long way around

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.37 in modern English

Syllables: long way around
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.

noun

An indirect approach.

Example Sentences

"Acknowledging Annibale Carracci is the long way around to Rubens, but it is the route of choice because Annibale so aptly exemplifies a nagging notion we have about the difficulty of looking at painting in general and individual paintings in particular."
"That was the long way around of saying that I tend to use terribly crude debugging techniques with unsafe printfs."
"It seems that people think of simple ways to say things or know them, but I was always taking the long way around."
"We often ask why God takes such long ways around to his stated objectives."

Inflected Forms

long ways around (plural)

Questions

What does long way around mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.

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