WordNet: epäsuora, kiertelevä, monisanainen, perifrastinen
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic); "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"
- similar to epäsuora
epäsuora
- (englanti) ambagious (synonyymi)
kiertelevä
- (suomi) kiertoilmaus (derivationally related)
- (suomi) kiertely (derivationally related)
- (englanti) circumlocutious (synonyymi)
monisanainen
- (englanti) circumlocutory (synonyymi)
perifrastinen
- (suomi) perifraasi (derivationally related)
- (englanti) periphrastic (synonyymi)