Periphrase

['perɪfreɪz]

Definition

(n.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.

(v. t.) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.

(v. i.) To use circumlocution.

Typist: Shirley

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Circumlocution, periphrasis, circuit of words, roundabout expression.

Typed by Hector

Definition

n. a round-about way of speaking: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea: (rhet.) a figure employed to avoid a trite expression—also Periph′rasis.—v.t. or v.i. to use circumlocution.—adjs. Periphras′tic -al containing or expressed by periphrasis or circumlocution.—adv. Periphras′tically.

Editor: Orville