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ili-30-00767626-a CILI: i4235
WordNet Domains: factotum
Top Ontology:
Basic Level Concept:
Epinonyms: [3] expressive_style
[3] expressive_style |0.93|
[2] ili-30-07089751-n (has_hyperonym) |1|
[1] ili-30-07090379-n (has_hyperonym) |1|
[0] ili-30-00767626-a (related_to) |0.8|
Polarity:
  positive negative
SentiWordNet: 0.375 0
ML-SentiCon: 0.125 0.375
Time:
  past present future atemporal
TempoWordNet: 0 0 0 1

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CA Variants
- perifràstic
ES Variants
- perifrástico
EN Variants
- ambagious
- circumlocutious
- circumlocutory
had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
- periphrastic
"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings." -T.S.Eliot
Gloss
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious'is archaic)
FR Variants
- périphrastique
Lexical relations in WordNet via ILI (6) - Show / Hide graph:
Synonyms
(near_synonym) 		00766457-a: extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
Related
(related_to) 		06761342-n: an indirect way of expressing something
Related
(related_to) 		07090379-n: a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Glosses
(gloss) 		00179677-r: without any necessity
Glosses
(gloss) 		00549236-a: using or containing too many words
Glosses
(gloss) 		00767349-a: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct