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語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek περιφραστικός (periphrastikós), from περίφρασις (períphrasis, “periphrasis”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌpɛ.ɹɪˈfɹæ.stik/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˌpɛ.ɹəˈfɹæ.stɪk/
• 韻: -æstɪk

形容詞

periphrastic (not comparable)

1. Expressed in more words than are necessary.

   He wrote a periphrastic love letter to his wife to patch up their relationship.

   She was simply asked to express how she felt, but her response was periphrastic.

   • 1916, Martin Brown Ruud, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway‎:

     As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.

   • 1940, T. S. Eliot, East Coker:

     That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings.

2. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
   • 1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race‎, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons:

     In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.

3. (grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.

   “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.

派生語

関連する語

• periphrase
• periphrasis
• periphrastic conjugation