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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Words linked to "Periphrastic" : periphrasis, circumlocutory, indirect, ambagious |
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