Adjective: periphrastic ,pe-ru'fra-stik
- Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
"had a preference for periphrastic rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, / Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings";
- circumlocutious [archaic], circumlocutory, ambagious [archaic]
See also: indirect
Encyclopedia: Periphrastic