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Defenition of the word periphrastic

    • Defenition of the word periphrastic

      • 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 meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
      • 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
      • roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

    Synonyms for the word periphrastic

      • ambagious
      • circumlocutious
      • circumlocutory

    Similar words in the periphrastic

      • indirect

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