meaning of periphrastic
1. Alt. of Periphrastical
2. 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. "-T. S. Eliot; `ambagious is archaic
Related Words
periphrastic | periphrastical | periphrastically |
