Periphrastic
Crossword Clue and Answers

Today we have 3 crossword solutions for Periphrastic.

We have deemed Periphrastic as a RARE crossword clue as we have not seen it in many (if any) crossword publications.

The most recent answer we found for this clue is "AMBAGIOUS".

Crossword Answers

9 letters

AMBAGIOUS
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; (`ambagious' is archaic)

14 letters

CIRCUMLOCUTORY
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; (`ambagious' is archaic)

15 letters

CIRCUMLOCUTIOUS
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; (`ambagious' is archaic)