Usually means: Expressing meaning using more words.
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  3. periphrastical: Wiktionary
  4. Periphrastical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  6. periphrastical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. periphrastical: FreeDictionary.org

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of periphrastic [Expressed in more words than are necessary.]

Similar:
paraphrastical, peripatetical, interphrastic, paraphrasic, interphrasic, metaphrastical, extraphilosophic, epenthetical, hypermetaphoric, aphoristical, more...

Opposite:
concise, direct, succinct, straightforward

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Similar:
paraphrastical, peripatetical, interphrastic, paraphrasic, interphrasic, metaphrastical, extraphilosophic, epenthetical, hypermetaphoric, aphoristical, more...

Opposite:
concise, direct, succinct, straightforward



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