periphrastically

Adverb

Meaning

With circumlocution.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

indirectly diagonally complexly deceptively deceitfully diffusely aslant crookedly implicitly obliquely secondhand wordily tacitly rhetorically euphemistically
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Antonyms

right directly instantly homelily straight to the point

Examples

Broderick 1993, 276 However, as noted above, most finite verbs are formed periphrastically, using an auxiliary verb in conjunction with the verbal noun. Source: Internet

These verbs have only three principal parts, since the perfect of ordinary passives is formed periphrastically with the perfect participle, which is formed on the same stem as the supine. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

periphrastic conjugation periphrastic genitive periphrastical periphysate periphytic periphytivore