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Dictionary Results for periphrastic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

periphrastic
    adj 1: 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) [syn: circumlocutious,
           circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Periphrastic \Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
   Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
   characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
   [1913 Webster]

   Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
      the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
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