periphrastic

英 [ˌperɪ'fræstɪk] 美 [ˌperɪ'fræstɪk]

• adj. 迂回曲折的；[语]迂说法的

英英释义

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."
   

近反义词

【近义词】

• roundabout 绕道的
• circumlocutory 委婉曲折的
• indirect 间接的
• meandering 曲径
• circuitous 迂回的
• convoluted 旋绕的
• oblique 间接的
• tortuous 弯曲的
• circumlocutious 迂回的
• ambagious 迂远的