Periphrastic is valid Scrabble Word

Is periphrastic a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is periphrastic valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

12 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for PERIPHRASTIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

of or like periphrasis, the use of longer phrasing in place of shorter form of expression, also PERIPHRASTICAL
(of speech or writing) indirect and circumlocutory
Alt. of Periphrastical
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
of or like periphrasis, the use of longer phrasing in place of shorter form of expression
(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).

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or characterized by periphrasis

Words that contain PERIPHRASTIC

periphrastical23 periphrasticall24 periphrastically28

How to use PERIPHRASTIC in a sentence

But its fault even in that part is that he confounds the genius of the English language, making it periphrastic and literal, instead of elliptical and idiomatic.
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
He might be described as the last of the periphrastic humorists.
Such of his sermons as are still extant are prosy, long-winded, dogmatic absurdities, overloaded with periphrastic illustrations in scriptural language.

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