The meaning of Prolix

verb

Spread over a wide area or between a large number of people.

Usage examples:

Technologies diffuse rapidly

adjective

Spread out over a large area; not concentrated.

Usage examples:

The diffuse community which centred on the church

verb

To spread or cause something to spread in many directions

Usage examples:

[ t ] television is a powerful means of diffusing knowledge., [ t ] the guide tried to diffuse the …

adjective

Characterized by digression; tending to depart from the subject.

Usage examples:

A digressive account

adjective

Digressive speech or writing moves away from the main subject

Usage examples:

His interview style is often wildly digressive, and frequently mischievous., the plot is digressive…

adjective

Digressing from subject to subject.

Usage examples:

Students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose

adjective

Involving discussion

Usage examples:

A discursive essay, a discursive writer/speech

adjective

Having or seeming to have no end or limit.

Usage examples:

Endless ocean wastes

adjective

If something is endless, it never finishes or seems never to finish because it continues for so long

Usage examples:

When i was a child, the summers seemed endless., education policy is endlessly debated.

adjective

Never finishing, or never seeming to finish

Usage examples:

There have been endless meetings about this problem., we've had orders from brazil, china, india, s…

adjective

Endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically).

Usage examples:

We got bogged down in interminable discussions

adjective

Continuing for too long and seeming never to end

Usage examples:

Interminable arguments, they talked interminably.

adjective

Requiring considerable time and effort.

Usage examples:

Years of laborious training

adjective

(especially in reference to time) of considerable or unusual length, especially so as to be tedious.

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Lengthy delays

Extended in duration

adjective

Taking a long time

Usage examples:

A lengthy speech

adjective

Taking more time than is necessary

Usage examples:

A long-drawn-out process

idiom

Using or containing too many words

adjective

(of speech or writing) continuing at tedious length.

Usage examples:

A long-winded question

adjective

Capable of doing something for a long time without becoming breathless.

adjective

Too long.

Usage examples:

An overlong sermon

adverb

For too long.

Usage examples:

The pass was delayed overlong

adjective

Too long

Usage examples:

The last song on the album is brilliantly performed but overlong.

adjective

Slow and clumsy because of great weight.

Usage examples:

A swarthy, ponderous giant of a man

adjective

Slow and awkward because of being very heavy or large, or (esp. of speech or writing) boring and difficult

Usage examples:

A ponderous pace, ponderous dialogue

adjective

Continuing for a long time or longer than usual; lengthy.

Usage examples:

The region suffered a prolonged drought

verb

Extend the duration of.

Usage examples:

An idea which prolonged the life of the engine by many years

adjective

Continuing for a long time

Usage examples:

Prolonged use of the drug is known to have harmful side-effects.

adjective

Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.

Usage examples:

A protracted and bitter dispute

verb

Prolong.

Usage examples:

He had certainly taken his time, even protracting the process

adjective

Lasting for a long time, or made to continue longer than necessary

Usage examples:

Their protracted legal battle may soon be resolved.

adjective

(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.

Usage examples:

A rambling six-hour speech

noun

The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure.

Usage examples:

A rambling club

verb

Walk for pleasure in the countryside.

Usage examples:

I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing

adjective

Having or seeming to have no end.

Usage examples:

The charity rescues children from unending poverty

adjective

Without limit or end

Usage examples:

He seemed to have an unending supply of stories.

adjective

Relating to or in the form of words.

Usage examples:

The root of the problem is visual rather than verbal

noun

A word or words functioning as a verb.

verb

Attribute a damaging statement to (a suspect), especially dishonestly.

Usage examples:

Him verballing other people at a meeting on the other side of the world apparently putting things i…

adjective

Using or expressed in more words than are needed.

Usage examples:

Much academic language is obscure and verbose

adjective

Using or containing more words than are necessary

Usage examples:

A verbose explanation/report/speech/style, he was a notoriously verbose after-dinner speaker.

adjective

Using or expressed in rather too many words.

Usage examples:

A wordy and repetitive account

adjective

Containing too many words

Usage examples:

Your memo is too wordy – make it short and to the point.