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prolix

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Adjective

HYPHEN

pro=lix

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prolix has 1 sense

prolix(a = adj.all) - tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"

Antonym:

concise

Derived forms noun prolixity₁, noun prolixness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

prolix, a. [L. prolixus extended, long, prolix, probably fr. pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. lixa water: cf. F. prolixe. See Liquid.].

Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. [1913 Webster]
"With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist." [1913 Webster]
Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer. [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Long; diffuse; prolonged; protracted; tedious; tiresome; wearisome.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

prolix, adj. (of speech, writing, etc.) lengthy; tedious.

Derivative

prolixity n. prolixly adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF prolixe or L prolixus poured forth, extended (as PRO-(1), liquere be liquid)

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THESAURUS

prolix

all jaw, blah, broken-record, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effusive, endless, everlasting, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive, extended, filled out, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gratuitous, gregarious, gushy, harping, humdrum, in excess, invariable, irksome, jog-trot, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, monotonous, multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential, overtalkative, padded, pleonastic, prolonged, protracted, redundant, singsong, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out, supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic, tautologous, tedious, tiresome, to spare, treadmill, uncalled-for, unessential, uneventful, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelenting, unvarying, verbose, voluble, wearisome, windy, wordy

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prolix

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.