nld: perifrastisch

Information
has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/nld/perifrastisch

Meaning
means	(adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) circumlocutious, ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic