periphrastic
adjective
1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
- A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.
Similar word(s): indirect, ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory
Sentences with periphrastic as an adjective:
- “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.