Word Meanings - PERIPHRASIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See PERIPHRASE

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERIPHRASIS)

• Circumlocution
• Periphrasis
• verbosity
• inconciseness
• insuccinctness
• ambiguousness
• anfractuosity

Related words: (words related to PERIPHRASIS)

• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• CIRCUMLOCUTION
  The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
• ANFRACTUOSITY
  A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain. (more info) 1. A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.
• PERIPHRASIS
  See PERIPHRASE
• CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.