Word Meanings - PERIPHRASTICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With circumlocution.

Related words: (words related to PERIPHRASTICALLY)

• CIRCUMLOCUTION
  The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
• CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.