circumvential
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circumvent + -ial
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circumvential (comparative more circumvential, superlative most circumvential)
- That circumvents.
- 1981, I-78, Berkeley Heights to Springfield, Somerset/Union Counties […] , Volume 3[1]:
- 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 […]