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| has gloss | (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 |
| lexicalization | eng: ambagious |
| lexicalization | eng: circumlocutious |
| lexicalization | eng: circumlocutory |
| lexicalization | eng: periphrastic |
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| Asturian | |
| lexicalization | ast: perifrásticu |
| Catalan | |
| lexicalization | cat: perifràstic |
| Czech | |
| lexicalization | ces: rozvláčný |
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| lexicalization | ces: opisný |
| lexicalization | ces: perifrastický |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | |
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| lexicalization | ell: περιφραστικός |
| Finnish | |
| lexicalization | fin: perifrastinen |
| French | |
| lexicalization | fra: périphrastique |
| Italian | |
| lexicalization | ita: perifrastico |
| Korean | |
| lexicalization | kor: 완곡한 |
| lexicalization | kor: 빙둘러말하는 |
| lexicalization | kor: 굽이굽이 돈 |
| lexicalization | kor: 우언적인 |
| lexicalization | kor: 에두르는 |
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| lexicalization | kor: 우회적인 |
| lexicalization | kor: 에두른 |
| Dutch | |
| lexicalization | nld: perifrastisch |
| lexicalization | nld: omschrijvend |
| Russian | |
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| lexicalization | rus: околичный |
| lexicalization | rus: перифрастический |
| Slovak | |
| lexicalization | slk: opisný |
| Castilian | |
| lexicalization | spa: perifrástico |
| Thai | |
| lexicalization | tha: อ้อ้มค้อม |
| Turkish | |
| lexicalization | tur: dolambaçlý ifade edilmiþ |
| lexicalization | tur: dolambaçlý söz türünden |
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