Periphrastic - Definition
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]