periphrastic

12 letters · adjective · scores 3,800 in SpellHuntr

adjective

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Periphrastic in a sentence

He wrote a periphrastic love letter to his wife to patch up their relationship.

She was simply asked to express how she felt, but her response was periphrastic.

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