What does periphrastic mean in English? Meaning of periphrastic definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "periphrastic": roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
Adjective
Meaning: roundabout and unnecessarily wordyExample: 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.Synonyms: ambagious
circumlocutious
circumlocutory
periphrasticSimilar: indirectPronunciation in US: /ˌpɛ.ɹəˈfɹæ.stɪk/
Pronunciation in UK: /ˌpɛ.ɹɪˈfɹæ.stik/
Adjective: Expressed in more words than are necessary. 1916, Martin Brown Ruud, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful. 1940, T. S. Eliot, East Coker: "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."1916, Martin Brown Ruud, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.1940, T. S. Eliot, East Coker: "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory. 1870, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.1870, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril: The Power of the Coming Race In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.(grammar) Characterized by periphrasis. “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.Synonyms:
bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy, palaverous,
