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What is the adjective for periphrasis?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb periphrase which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

periphrastic
  1. Expressed in more words than are necessary.
  2. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
  3. (grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Labor is simply the complementary of leisure, and the two together are the periphrastic equivalent of life.”
      “Her periphrastic language cleverly danced around the true identity of the celebrity she was referring to.”
      “As the lexicon expands, the clumsy but motivated compounds and periphrastic expressions disappear.”
periphrastical
  1. Alternative form of periphrastic
periphrasic
  1. Of or pertaining to periphrasis
periphrased
  1. simple past tense and past participle of periphrase
periphrasing
  1. present participle of periphrase
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