| 单词 | periphrasis |
| 释义 | periphrasis (once / 24023 pages) n When you choose a longer or less straightforward way of saying something, you use periphrasis. One example of periphrasis is describing someone as "more intelligent" instead of "smarter." Choosing a two-word description instead of the one-word equivalent (like "more lengthy" rather than "longer") is one way to use periphrasis. This also happens when you use a longer phrase, like "give a presentation," instead of a single word that conveys the same meaning, "present." Using many words to describe something instead of a simple noun is also periphrasis: "the mother of my father," for example, instead of "grandmother." The Greek root, periphrazein, means "speak in a roundabout way." WORD FAMILYperiphrasis: periphrases, periphrastic+/periphrastic: periphrastically USAGE EXAMPLESWhat hasty words, I wonder, of the rude and haughty admiral were represented by this sonorous periphrasis? Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund), Through East Anglia in a Motor Car(2012) To speak without periphrasis, I prefer what's underneath to what's outside. Kock, Charles Paul de, Fr?d?rique; vol. 1(2011) In literature such “barbarisms” were avoided as far as possible, and were replaced by Greek periphrases. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) n a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things Syn|Hyper ambage, circumlocution verboseness, verbosity an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words |
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