long-windedly

In rambling fashion

In a manner that uses more words or takes more time than necessary.

Someone who explains long-windedly keeps talking well past the point where listeners have grasped the idea: He long-windedly recounted every detail of his commute.

verbose

wordily

In verbose manner

volubly · diffusely · redundantly · repetitively · tautologically · expansively · effusively · discursively · bombastically · grandiloquently

rambling

digressively

In a tangent-taking manner

circuitously · obliquely · indirectly · erratically · desultorily · aimlessly · incoherently · haphazardly · loosely

tedious

boringly

In an uninteresting manner

ponderously · laboriously · dully · drearily · repetitiously · draggingly · endlessly · interminably · exhaustingly · soporifically

Opposites
verbal brevity and economy

long-windedlyconcisely

In few words

tersely · briefly · succinctly · pithily · crisply

Family

long, winded, long-winded, long-windedness

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G