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Periphrastic

Periphrastic Meaning & Definition
Periphrastic Definition And Meaning

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

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Periphrastic In Webster's Dictionary

\Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical

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