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periphrastic - Dictionary definition and meaning for periphrastic

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."
synonyms : ambagious , circumlocutious , circumlocutory

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(Tag: ) Peri- Phrase (round about phrase) not straight approach
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(Tag: ) PERIPHRASTIC can be related to peripheral,so a word having peripheral meaning is the INDIRECT meaning
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