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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
periphrastic


adjective
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)
Syn:
circumlocutious, circumlocutory, ambagious
Similar to:
indirect
Derivationally related forms:
ambage (for: ambagious), periphrasis, circumlocution (for: circumlocutious)

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