periphrase 的定义
plural pe·riph·ra·ses [puh-rif-ruh-seez]. /pəˈrɪf rəˌsiz/.
- the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- an expression phrased in such fashion.
periphrase 近义词
等同于 verbiage
periphrase 的近义词 11 个
- circumlocution
- expansiveness
- floridity
- long-windedness
- loquacity
- periphrasis
- pleonasm
- prolixity
- redundancy
- tautology
- verbosity
periphrase 的反义词 1 个
等同于 circumlocution
更多periphrase例句
- In Modern French the pronominal inversion (the substantive being prefixed) or a verbal periphrasis must be used—Saul est-il?
- Periphras′tic, -al, containing or expressed by periphrasis or circumlocution.
- Be it remarked that this periphrasis indicated his mother; and that the bread he alluded to is made with a species of leaven.
- "Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that bears gold on her arm.
- "He that hoardeth ocean's fire," a periphrasis for man, Hauskuld of Whiteness.