PERIPHRASTIC
- (of speech or writing) Indirect and circumlocutory
- (of a case or tense) Formed by a combination of words rather than by inflection (such as did go and of the people rather than went and the people's)
- of or like periphrasis, the use of longer phrasing in place of shorter form of expression also PERIPHRASTICAL [adj]
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