periphrastic (Adjective) — Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy. ex. "had a preference for periphrastic rather than forthright expression" ex. "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."
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