periphrastic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: periphrastic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for periphrastic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
periphrastic 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) Synonym(s): circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Periphrastic \Per`iphras"tic\, Periphrastical \Per`iphras"tical\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. p[82]riphrastique.] Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. {Periphrastic* conjugation} (Gram.), a conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.