Periphrastic

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  • adjective. Having the nature of or characterized by periphrasis.
  • adjective. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the character of or characterized by periphrasis; circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in more words than are necessary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
  • adjective. a conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Expressed in more words than are necessary.
  • adjective. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
  • adjective. Characterized by periphrase or circumlocution.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
    • Word Usage
    "I almost said "periphrastic" -- ways of putting simple thoughts into words."
    Equivalent
    indirect  periphrastical  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    active-intransitive  all-composite  amodal  cavalerie  celebrate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    circumlocutor  circumlocutory  
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