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circumvental

circumvental is the alternative spelling of circumvential.

Meaning of circumvential

Adjective

circumvential (comparative more circumvential, superlative most circumvential)

  1. 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

Forms of circumvental

comparativemore circumvental
superlativemost circumvental

Origin of circumvental

From circumvent + -al.

Questions about circumvental

What is circumvental the alternative spelling of?
Circumvental is the alternative spelling of circumvential.

Words near circumvental in the dictionary

  1. circumvection
  2. circumvections
  3. circumvene
  4. circumvent
  5. circumventable
  6. circumvental
  7. circumvented
  8. circumventer
  9. circumventers
  10. circumvential
  11. circumventing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circumvental (page history and authors); circumvential (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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