About The Word Periphrastic
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Periphrastic
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What's The Definition Of Periphrastic?
[adj] 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)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Periphrastic: ambagious | circumlocutious | circumlocutory | indirect Related Terms | Find terms related to Periphrastic: See Also | Periphrastic In Webster's Dictionary \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
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