首页英语词典periphrasticperiphrastic英英释意

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)