periphrastic

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periphrastic Definition

• (s) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meaning

periphrastic Synonyms

• ambagious
• circumlocutious
• circumlocutory
• periphrastic