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long-windedadjective using or containing more words than necessary to express an ideahis long-winded explanation could have been boiled down to two sentences circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, volubleperiphrasticredundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousembellished, embroidered, exaggeratedbombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin(also hifalutin) compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse brief, shortaphoristic, epigrammatic, sententiouscompendious, summaryabbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortenedabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy in 1578 |