Periphrase [noun]
Definition of Periphrase:
repetition, wordiness
Sentence/Example of Periphrase:
The words inclined to think seems a periphrase for secret infidelity.
Words related to Periphrase:
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● Ambage
● Circumlocution
● Brachyology
● Rhetorical device
● Hyperbaton
● Noun phrase
● Figure of speech
● Function word
● Verb phrase
● Content word
● Set phrase
● Subjunction
● Parelcon
● Brachylogy
● Major form class
● Expressive style
● Phrase
● Hysteron proteron
● Tralation
● Epanadiplosis
● Hypallage
● Word form
● Dorism
● Verbify
● Adnominal
● Apocope
● Orthotone
● Adnoun
● Laconism
● Illocution
● Verbalist
● Polyseme
● Reflexive verb
● Extradictionary
● Apocopation
● Common noun
● Anthimeria
● Circumbendibus
● Nounize
● Relative clause
● Pauciloquy
● Demonstrative pronoun
● Phrasal verb
● Obsoletism
● Hispanism
● Conversationism
● Euphemism
● Predeterminer
● Perlocution
● Verb
● Verbal noun
● Independent clause
● Adposition
● Paragoge
● Sesquipedalianism
● Cacoepy
● Autological
● Paradiastole
● Locution
● Paronym
● Metaphrase
● Verbality
● Trisyllable
● Cockneyism
● Apocopate
● Aoristic
● Direct speech
● Ecphonesis
● Split infinitive
● Orthoepist
● Prepositional phrase
● Sesquipedality
● Agnomination
● Present participle
● Ecthlipsis
● Colloquial
● Jargonize
● Concrete noun
● Antepenultima
● Language unit
● Antiphrasis
● Perissology
● Mot juste
● Indirect speech
● Give voice
● Anacoluthia
● Participle
● Complex sentence
● Auxiliary verb
● Subject case
● Overword
● Phraseology
● Anacoluthon
● Biverbal
● Ideophone
● Gerund
● Metalepsis
● Modal auxiliary
● Verbigeration
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