- Types Of Speech
- You can use periphrastic as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Periphrastic
- A 4 syllables adjective satellite and 12 letters with the letters a, c, e, h, i, p, r, s, and t, 8 consonants, 4 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letters hr. Periphrastic starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pe, per, peri, perip, and the ending characters are c, ic, tic, stic, astic, ..
- Definition
- 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 meaning
- Origin/Roots
- Ancient Greek
- Pig Latin
- Periphrastic in Pig Latin is said as "eriphrasticpay or eriphrasticpway".
- Unigram
- p | e | r | i | p | h | r | a | s | t | i | c
- Bigram
- pe | er | ri | ip | ph | hr | ra | as | st | ti | ic
- Trigram
- per | eri | rip | iph | phr | hra | ras | ast | sti | tic
- Quadrigram
- peri | erip | riph | iphr | phra | hras | rast | asti | stic
- Word Gram
Anagram | Definition |
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Periphrastic | 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 meaning |
View English words with the unique letters used in periphrastic. Words With The Letters Acehiprst
Similar Word | Definition |
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Indirect | not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in sailing" |
Periphrastic Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With C