Meanings
adjectivecircumvential (comparative more circumvential, superlative most circumvential)
comparative more circumvential · superlative most circumvential · alternative circumvental
- That circumvents.
For trips with an ultimate destination of Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, these circumvential routes avoid the Holland Tunnel bottleneck and the additional, and serious, traffic blockade caused by lower Manhattan's narrow streets […]
1981, I-78, Berkeley Heights to Springfield, Somerset/Union Counties […] , Volume 3
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APA
circumvential. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumvential
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“circumvential.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumvential. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circumvential,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumvential.
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