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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
periphrastic is an adjective meaning "roundabout and unnecessarily wordy". It carries one recorded sense.
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.”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for periphrastic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.