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Definition: Periphrastic |
PeriphrasticAdjective1. 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "periphrastic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonyms: PeriphrasticSynonyms: ambagious (adj), circumlocutious (adj), circumlocutory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Periphrastic |
| English words defined with "periphrastic": ambagious ♦ Circumlocutional, circumlocutious, circumlocutory ♦ Periphrastic conjugation. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "periphrastic": periphrastic conjugation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
periphrastic | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "periphrastic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me shumë perifraza, alegorik (allegoric, allegorical, parabolic, parabolical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غني بالتوريات, تلميحي, تعريضي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | описателен (descriptive, expository, narrative, paraphrastic), перифрастичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opisný (circumlocutional, circumlocutory, paraphrastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | périphrastique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περιφραστικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | terjengõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ym-loayrtagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eriphrasticpay circunlóquio (circumbendibus, circumlocution). (various references) perifrastic (periphrastically). (various references) изобилующий перифразами. (various references) perifrastičan, opisan (descriptive). (various references) perifrástico. (various references) perifrastisk, omskrivande (circumlocutory, paraphrastic). (various references) dolambaçlı ifade edilmiş. (various references) описовий (circumlocutory, descriptive, expositive, expository), алегоричний (allegoric, allegorical, allusive, roundabout), перифрастичний. (various references) dùng lối nói vòng, dùng lối nói quanh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "periphrastic": periphrastically. (additional references) | |
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"Periphrastic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: periphractic, perphrastic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: archpriest, parritches, triarchies. | |
-3 letters: chapiters, charities, charriest, chippiest, chirpiest, crappiest, epitaphic, pericarps, phratries, prescript, scrappier, starchier. | |
-4 letters: airstrip, appriser, aspheric, chapiter, chapters, chariest, charters, chippers, chippier, chippies, chirpers, chirpier, christie, crappers, crappier, crappies, crispate, crispier, criteria, epicarps, epitaphs, erratics, hairiest, happiest, hepatics, hieratic, hippiest, papistic, parchesi, parchisi, paretics, parities, parritch, partiers, pastiche, patchers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: hyperparasitic. | |
+4 letters: periphrastically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 69 70 68 72 61 73 74 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. .. .--. .... .-. .- ... - .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110000 01101000 01110010 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r i p h r a s t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0069 0070 0068 0072 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507184758274846785867569 |
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