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Word Meanings - PERIPHRASTICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With circumlocution.

Related words: (words related to PERIPHRASTICALLY)

  • CIRCUMLOCUTION
    The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
  • CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL
    Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.

 

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