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| Main Entry: | |
| 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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