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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Periphrastic (0.01533 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Periphrastic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: periphrastic
periphrastic
adj : 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Periphrastic
Periphrastic
\Per`i*phras"tic\, Periphrastical
\Per`i*phras"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. p['e]riphrastique.]
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary;
characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
[1913 Webster]
Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by
the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.
[1913 Webster]
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