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periphrastic
[ per-uh-fras-tik ]
adjective
- circumlocutory; roundabout.
- Grammar. noting a construction of two or more words having the same syntactic function as an inflected word, as of Mr. Smith in the son of Mr. Smith, which is equivalent to Mr. Smith's in Mr. Smith's son.
periphrastic
/ ˌɛɪˈڰæɪ /
adjective
- employing or involving periphrasis
- expressed in two or more words rather than by an inflected form of one: used esp of a tense of a verb where the alternative element is an auxiliary verb. For example, He does go and He will go involve periphrastic tenses
Derived Forms
- ˌˈپ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- i·t·· adverb
- ܲp··t adjective
- ܲp··t·· adverb
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of periphrastic1
Example Sentences
But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself.
HANGZHOU, China — The students were lined up in rows, listening intently as their professor, Li Wei, explained the periphrastic future tense.
This is the only name known in Gaelic to the present hour for the month of August, except a periphrastic one meaning “the first month of autumn.”
Using these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses.
They would have no unities, no arbitrary selection of subjects, no restraints on variety of versification, no academically limited vocabulary, no considerations of artificial beauty, and, above all, no periphrastic expression.
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