periphrastic

adj : 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) [syn: {circumlocutious},

{circumlocutory}, {ambagious}]