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Periphrastic vs Inflectional - What's the difference?

periphrastic | inflectional |

As adjectives the difference between periphrastic and inflectional

is that periphrastic is expressed in more words than are necessary while inflectional is of or pertaining to inflection.

periphrastic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Expressed in more words than are necessary.
  • * 1916 , , An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
    • As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic , arbitrary, not at all faithful.
  • * 1940 , :
    • "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."
  • Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
  • * 1870 , , Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
    • In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good .
  • (grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.
    • “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.

    Related terms

    * periphrase * periphrasis * periphrastic conjugation

    inflectional

    English

    Alternative forms

    * inflexional

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to inflection.
  • (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a point of inflection of a curve.

    • Derived terms

    * inflectional morphology * inflectional phrase * inflectional tangent