> periphrastic: indirect and circumlocutory.
"the periphrastic nature of legal syntax"
synonyms: circumlocutory, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, tautological, pleonastic, prolix, verbose, wordy, long-winded, rambling, wandering, tortuous, diffuse
"the periphrastic nature of legal syntax"
GRAMMAR
(of a case or tense) formed by a combination of words rather than by inflection (such as did go and of the people rather than went and the people's ).