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Adjective: periphrastic `peru'frastik- Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
"had a preference for periphrastic rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."
- circumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagious [archaic]
See also: indirect, periphrasis Encyclopedia: Periphrastic |