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periphrastic

DEFINITIONS OF: periphrastic

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adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

“"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot”
Synonyms:
ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory
indirect
extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
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