PERIPHRASIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: periphrases

Meaning:

A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

Synonyms:

ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("periphrasis" is a kind of...):

verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)

Derivation:

periphrastic (roundabout and unnecessarily wordy)