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periphrastic
[英] [ˌperəˈfræstɪk] [美] [ˌpɛrəˈfræstɪk] 生词本

adj.

Adjective

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)