PERIPHRASTIC

circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious

(adjective) 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)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

periphrastic (comparative more periphrastic, superlative most periphrastic)

Expressed in more words than are necessary.

Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.

(grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.

Source: Wiktionary

Per`i*phras"tic, Per`i*phras"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. périphrastique.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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