periphrastic

Definition of Periphrastic in English :

Adjective

1. ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Example Sentences:
'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.'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Periphrastic

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adjective

1.

employing or involving periphrasis

2.

expressed in two or more words rather than by an inflected form of one: used esp of a tense of a verb where the alternative element is an auxiliary verb. For example, He does go and He will go involve periphrastic tenses

Periphrastic

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adjective

1.

of, like, or expressed in periphrasis

2. Grammar

formed with a particle or an auxiliary verb instead of by inflection (Ex.: the phrase did sing used for the inflected form sang)

Periphrastic

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adj.

1. Having the nature of or characterized by periphrasis.

2. Grammar Constructed by using an auxiliary word rather than an inflected form; for example, of father is the periphrastic possessive case of father but father's is the inflected possessive case, and did say is the periphrastic past tense of say but said is the inflected past tense.

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