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    PERIPHRASTIC

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Roundabout and unnecessarily wordyplay

    Example:

    A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.

    Synonyms:

    ambagious; circumlocutious; circumlocutory; periphrastic

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    indirect (extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action)

    Derivation:

    periphrasis (a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things)

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