prolix
Using too many
Prolix describes speech or writing that uses more words than necessary—long-winded, tediously drawn out.
A prolix lecturer exhausts patience before reaching the point.
The word carries mild criticism: not just thorough but excessively so.
His prolix explanations made a simple concept incomprehensible.
Inclined to talk much
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- volubleInclined to talk freely
- talkativeInclined to speak much
- effusiveUnrestrainedly emotional in expression
chatty · gabby · jabbering · blathering · prattling · babbling · windy · gushing
Using more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- circumlocutorySpeaking in circles
- periphrasticExpressed through excess words
- pleonasticUnnecessarily wordy in expression
turgid · redundant · tautological · padded · overwritten · inflated · bloated · superfluous
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- ornateElaborately decorated
- sesquipedalianGiven to lengthy vocabulary
pompous · overwrought · purple · flowery · rhetorical · magniloquent · highfalutin · aureate
Tending to stray topically
- discursiveTending to wander topically
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- circuitousIndirect, winding path
tangential · maundering · desultory · unfocused · scattered · aimless · convoluted · indirect
loquacious
Inclined to talk much
effusive · chatty · gabby · jabbering · blathering · prattling · babbling · windy · gushing · motormouthed
wordy
Using more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- circumlocutorySpeaking in circles
- periphrasticExpressed through excess words
pleonastic · turgid · redundant · tautological · padded · overwritten · inflated · bloated · superfluous · repetitive
grandiloquent
Pretentiously elevated in speech
sesquipedalian · pompous · overwrought · purple · flowery · rhetorical · magniloquent · highfalutin · aureate · ostentatious
digressive
Tending to stray topically
- discursiveTending to wander topically
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
circuitous · tangential · maundering · desultory · unfocused · scattered · aimless · convoluted · indirect · roundabout
tiresome
Causing boredom or annoyance
plodding · ponderous · monotonous · dull · boring · droning · soporific · leaden · stodgy · turgid