HyperDic: periphrastic

English > 1 sense of the word periphrastic:
ADJECTIVEallperiphrastic, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagiousroundabout and unnecessarily wordy
English > periphrastic: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningroundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic).
Example "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot
Synonymscircumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagious
BroaderindirectExtended senses
Spanishperifrástico
Catalanperifràstic
Nounsperiphrasisa style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

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