Meaning of PERIPHRASTIC

Pronunciation:			`peru'frastik
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[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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	Synonyms:		ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, indirect
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
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