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Main Entry:
periphrastic [per-uh-fras-tik]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy
Synonyms: bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy
Main Entry: rambling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disconnected, wordy
Synonyms: circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, periphrastic, prolix
Antonyms: connected, direct, straightforward
Main Entry: redundant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: excessive; repetitious
Synonyms: bombastic, de trop, diffuse, extra, extravagant, inessential, inordinate, iterating, long-winded, loquacious, oratorical, padded, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, reiterating, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautological, unnecessary, unwanted, verbose, wordy
Antonyms: concise, essential, single, singular
Main Entry: roundabout
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indirect
Synonyms: ambiguous, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way, tortuous
Antonyms: direct, honest, straightforward
Main Entry: verbose
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking
Antonyms: concise, succinct
Main Entry: pleonastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy
Synonyms: bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, palaverous, periphrastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy
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