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adj. Tediously prolonged; wordy: editing a prolix manuscript.

adj. Tending to speak or write at excessive length. See Synonyms at wordy.

adj. Tediously lengthy.

adj. Tending to use large or obscure words, which few understand.

adj. 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

adj. Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

Long; extended.

Of long duration.

Long and wordy; extending to a great length; diffuse: as, a prolix oration or sermon.

Indulging in lengthy discourse; discussing at great length; tedious: as, a prolix speaker or writer.

Synonyms Long, lengthy, wordy, long-winded, spun out, prolonged.

Tiresome, wearisome.

adj. tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length

"Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar."

wordy    windy    verbose    pleonastic    tautologic    tautological    long-winded    redundant    diffuse    tedious   

brief    concise   

prolonged    wearisome    tiresome    protracted    diffuse    tedious    long    lengthy    long-winded    verbose   

meal    cosmicbackground    dedicatory    third person    unwelcoming    closely-written    declaimer    encyclical    untalented    propagandistic