| Pronunciation: | | `peru'frastik
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[adj] 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) |
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PERIPHRASTIC is a 12 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, indirect |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
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