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prolix
adjective
(pro-lix)
tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
Antonyms:
concise
,
Examples:
Editing a prolix manuscript.
A prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know.
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verbose
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wordy
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tautological
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tedious
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redundant
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verbal
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windy
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diffuse
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long-winded
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pleonastic
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tautologic
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pedantic
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digressive
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grandiloquent
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sesquipedalian
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ponderous
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ineloquent
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sententious
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turgid
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compendious
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unquotable
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pompous
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obtuse
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pretentious
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declamatory
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eloquent
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erudite
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abstruse
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polemical
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prosaic
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infelicitous
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aphoristic
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nabokovian
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rebarbative
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unpoetic
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epigrammatic
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delphic
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longwinded
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florid
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polysyllabic
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latinate
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overdetermined
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pithier
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mozartian
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hortatory
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denunciatory
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recondite
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lugubrious
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incantatory
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orotund
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overfamiliar
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gnomic
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otiose
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mellifluous
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denotative
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platitudinous
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rhapsodic
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teacherly
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jamesian
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idiosyncratic
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whiggish
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demotic
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shavian
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jejune
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splenetic
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exhortatory
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pellucid
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johnsonian
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tricksy
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glib
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waspish
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schoolmasterly
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bathetic
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unpublishable
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handelian
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easeful
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essayistic
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swiftian
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onomatopoetic
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discursive
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acidulous
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unmelodic
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solipsistic
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banal
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soporific
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lexicographical
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contentless
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idiomatic
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reductive
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disobliging
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uninflected
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unimprovable
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dostoevskian
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pointillistic
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tendentious
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jesuitical
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wordsworthian
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mozartean
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