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We found 27 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word periphrastic: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "periphrastic" is defined. General (25 matching dictionaries) periphrastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] periphrastic: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Vocabulary.com [home, info] periphrastic: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] periphrastic: Wordnik [home, info] periphrastic: Wiktionary [home, info] periphrastic: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] periphrastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] periphrastic: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Periphrastic, periphrastic: Dictionary.com [home, info] Periphrastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Periphrastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Rhymezone [home, info] periphrastic: Grandiloquent Dictionary [home, info] Periphrastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Free Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info] periphrastic: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] periphrastic: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] periphrastic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] periphrastic: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) periphrastic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) periphrastic: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions from WordNet (periphrastic) ▸ adjective:  roundabout and unnecessarily wordy ("A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot")