periphrastic

perifrastinen Expressed in more words than are necessary.
1916, w:Martin Brown Ruud|Martin Brown Ruud, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16416/16416-8.txt 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.

"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."

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.

“The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.