periphrastic
معنی فارسی
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معنی کامل و مثالها
/per´i fras´tik/adj.
● دارای اطناب، درازگویانه
● (دستور زبان) به همراه فعل کمکی (مثلا did sing به جای sang)
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From the Late Latin word 'periphrasticus', derived from the Greek word 'periphrastikos', meaning 'expressing in a roundabout way'.
مثال
- The periphrastic language used in the legal document made it difficult to understand.
- The professor's periphrastic explanation confused the students even more.
- The politician's periphrastic response avoided giving a direct answer.
ترکیبهای رایج
Use periphrastic language Periphrastic explanation Periphrastic response Periphrastic expressions
تعریف انگلیسی
- 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."-T.S.Eliot”
مترادفها
adjective
(also periphrastical)
Circumlocutory, roundabout, indirect, going round.