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121prolix — adj 1. verbose, wordy, long winded; tautological, redundant, pleonastic, battological; discursive, digressive, rambling, wandering; circumlocutory, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious; lengthy, very long, extensive, sesquipedalian; extended, drawn… …
122rambling — adj 1. wandering, traveling, roving, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory; vagrant, homeless, nomadic; wayfaring, perambulatory, drifting. 2. straggling, meandering, irregular, uneven, erratic, capricious, fitful; unsystematic, aberrant, circuitous …
123redundant — adj 1. verbose, prolix, wordy, diffuse; tautological, pleonastic, repetitious, reiterating, batto logical; periphrastic, roundabout, circumlocutory; fustian, bombastic, windy, long winded. 2. excessive, excess, in excess, hypertrophic,… …
124roundabout — adj winding, turning, twisting, crooked, zigzag, helical, labyrinthine, mazelike; sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, anfractuous; circuitous, indirect, ambagious, circular; circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circumlocutionary, periphrastic, rambling,… …
125sinuous — adj 1. winding, sinuate, flexuous, flexu ose, anfractuous, serpentine, tortuous, crooked, zigzag; curving, curved, curvy, curvilinear, twisting, twisted, turning, bending, bent; spiral, helical, spiral ing, twining, convoluted, volute, coiled,… …
126verbose — adj wordy, prolix, loquacious, long winded, longiloquent, multiloquent, multiloquous, voluble, effusive, fluent; talkative, glib, long tongued, Inf. blessed with the gift of gab, mouthy, Inf. big mouthed, Sl. all jaw, Sl. gassy, windy; chattering …
127voluble — adj talkative, talky, loquacious, garrulous, multiloquous, long tongued, Inf. big mouthed, Sl. all jaw; fluent, glib, Inf. blessed with or possessed of the gift of gab; conversational, chatty, gabby, gossipy, Sl. blabby, Sl. gassy, Sl. windy;… …
128wandering — adj 1. rambling, roving, roaming, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory, migrant, migratory; vagrant, vagabond, homeless, nomadic, gypsy, Bohemian; wayfaring, perambulatory, drifting; journeying, traveling. 2. straggling, meandering, winding,… …
