paraphrastic

It is elegant and faithful, but somewhat formal and paraphrastic.

Warburton, to evade Voltaire's criticism, put a strained and paraphrastic interpretation upon Pope's lines.

Grundtvigs translation4 had been so paraphrastic as often to obscure the sense, and always the spirit, of the original.

This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.