paraphrastic

par·a·phras·tic  (pr-frstk) or par·a·phras·ti·cal (-t-kl)

adj.

Of, relating to, or having the nature of paraphrase.

---

[Medieval Latin paraphrasticus, from Greek paraphrastikos, from paraphrazein, to paraphrase; see paraphrase.]

---

para·phrasti·cal·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

paraphrastic - altered by paraphrasing altered - changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens