Library / English Dictionary

PERIPHRASTIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Example:

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.

Synonyms:

ambagious; circumlocutious; circumlocutory; periphrastic

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

indirect (extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action)

Derivation:

periphrasis (a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things)

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