English adjective: periphrastic | |||
1. | periphrastic roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | ||
Samples | 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 | ||
Similar | indirect | ||
Antonyms | direct | ||