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Periphrastic

adjective

Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy. Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory. "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."

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"Periphrastic" Quotes from Famous Books

... a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Periphrastic" : circumlocutious, indirect, circumlocutory, periphrasis