PERIPHRASTIC
Scrabble letter values: P3E1R1I1P3H4R1A1S1T1I1C3 = 21
Definition
- adjective roundabout and unnecessarily wordy. — synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagious
Examples
- “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)”