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Confusing vs Circumbendibus - What's the difference?

confusing | circumbendibus |

As adjectives the difference between confusing and circumbendibus

is that confusing is difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc while circumbendibus is (often|humorous) indirect or roundabout.

As a verb confusing

is .

As a noun circumbendibus is

(often|humorous) a roundabout route or process.

confusing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc
    • Several sections in that book are really confusing .

    Related terms

    * confuse * confused * confusion

    Verb

    (head)

    • circumbendibus

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often, humorous) indirect or roundabout
  • * 1918 Sidney Watson, In the Twinkling of an Eye, Bible institute of Los Angeles, p66
    • “We’re all circumbendibus', / Wherever we may be, / We’re all '''circumbendibus''', / On land or on sea. / Rich or poor or middling, / Wherever we are found, / We’re all ' circumbendibus , / We’re all going round.”
  • * 1987 Syed Tassadque Hussain, Reflections on Kashmir politics, Rima Pub. House, p59
    • The only irresistible inference that can be deduced from a bare perusal of this judgment is that it is circumbendibus in its tenor vague and conjectural in its logic and in fine it is a remarkable piece of a political document.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (often, humorous) A roundabout route or process
  • * 1899 Herbert Spencer, Social Statics; Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed, D. Appleton and company, p383
    • If, as Coleridge says, “a knave is a fool with a circumbendibus',” then by instructing the knave you do but make the ' circumbendibus a wider one.
  • * 1907 Albert Temple Swing, James Harris Fairchild; Or Sixty-Eight Years with a Christian College, F. H. Revell company, p155
    • After he had moved into the house and repaired it Mrs. Mary L. Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door. “And what is this,” he said, “a circumbendibus ?”
  • * 1968 George William Erskine Russell, Afterthoughts, Ayer Publishing, p152
    • Before tea-time my circumbendibus brought me to the hospitable residence of Tommy’s chief supporter, whom we will call Mr Goodhart.
  • (often, humorous) A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing