periphrastic
英 [,perɪ'fræstɪk]
美[,pɛrə'fræstɪk]
- adj. 迂回的；冗长的；委婉的
英英释意
- 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."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)