1. using periphrasis: relating to or using periphrasis
2. not formed with inflections: formed using two or more words rather than an inflected form, especially used to describe a verb tense formed using an auxiliary verb rather than by inflecting the main verb. "Did you have" is a periphrastic equivalent of archaic "had you."
[Early 19th century. < Greek periphrastikos< periphrazein (see periphrasis)]
