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101verbose — adjective try not to be so verbose when you re being interviewed Syn: wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble; long winded, flatulent, lengthy, prolix, tautological, pleonastic, periphrastic, circumlocutory, circuitous, wandering,… …
102wordy — adjective a wordy sermon Syn: long winded, verbose, prolix, lengthy, protracted, long drawn out, overlong, rambling, circumlocutory, periphrastic, pleonastic; loquacious, garrulous, voluble; informal windy Ant: succinct …
103prolix — *wordy, verbose, diffuse, redundant Analogous words: tedious, irksome, tiresome, wearisome: prolonged, protracted (see EXTEND): pleonastic, circumlocutory, redundant, tautological (see corresponding nouns at VERBIAGE) …
104diffuse — v 1. disperse, dissipate, dispel, circum fuse, spread; scatter, strew, bestrew, sow; disseminate, broadcast, propagate, distribute, dispense, circulate, cast forth; effuse, radiate, shed, give forth. adj 2. wordy, verbose, prolix, profuse, long… …
105digressive — adj diffuse, episodic, rhapsodic, excursive, discursive, desultory, deviate, deviant, divergent, deflective; circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circum locutionary; veering, straggling; deviating, divagating, rambling, straying, wandering,… …
106discursive — adj digressive, excursive, desultory, episodic, rhapsodic; circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circumlocutionary, circuitous, roundabout; rambling, roving, wandering, meandering, drifting, straggling, veering; diffuse, wordy, long winded, prolix,… …
107indirect — adj 1. roundabout, out of the way, oblique, ambagious, circuitous, circumambient; divergent, deviant, deviative; erratic, wandering, meandering, roving, winding, curving, tortuous, zigzag; circumlocutory, discursive, digressive, long drawn out. 2 …
108labyrinthian — adj 1. labyrinthine, labyrinthlike, mazelike, mazy; meandering, wandering, circuitous; circumlocutory, Inf. roundabout, daedal, Daedalian, Daedalic. 2. intricate, complicated, complex, involved, Byzantine; involute, involuted, convolute,… …
109long-drawn — adj 1. prolonged, protracted, lengthy, long, longsome, overlong. See long(def. 2). 2. long winded, windy, long spun, copious; repetitious, redundant, battological, pleonastic, tautologic; meandering, roundabout, circumlocutory, ambagious; verbose …
110long-winded — adj 1. verbose, prolix, garrulous, wordy, longiloquent, Inf. windy; diffuse, discursive, digressive, maundering, rambling, wandering, roving, aimless; circumlocutory, roundabout, ambagious. 2. extended, protracted, prolonged, lengthened, drawn… …
