Prolix

Adjective

 * 1) Tediously lengthy.
 * 2) * 1843, "Bossi—Necrologia G. C. Leonardo Sismondi.", vol. LXXII, issue CXLIV, p. 333,
 * People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.
 * 1) Tending to use large or obscure words, which few understand.

Synonyms

 * bombastic, long-winded, verbose, wordy
 * See also Thesaurus:verbose

Antonyms

 * concise, terse

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From prolixus:.

Translations

 * Catalan: prolix
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: }
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , phraseur, raseur
 * German: weitschweifig
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 諄々しい
 * Macedonian: развлечен, преопширен
 * Russian:, длительный
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , liosta
 * Spanish:, , , chicharra


 * Catalan: prolix
 * Dutch: zwammerig, verbeus,, breedsprakig
 * Finnish:
 * French:, cuistre, savantasse, ,


 * Macedonian: преречит
 * Russian:, занудный, , многоречивый
 * Spanish:, sabihondo, sabidillo

Etymology
From prolixus:.