Words and phrases that have a meaning related to prolix: (147 results)
Antonyms:
concise
Often used in the same context:
verbose, wordy, pedantic, digressive, infelicitous, aphoristic, nabokovian, rebarbative, unpoetic, epigrammatic, delphic, longwinded, compendious, florid, sententious, polysyllabic, latinate, overdetermined, ineloquent, mot juste, unquotable, pithier, turgid, mozartian, sesquipedalian, hortatory, denunciatory, recondite, grandiloquent, lugubrious, incantatory, orotund, ponderous, pompous, overfamiliar, erudite, declamatory, gnomic, otiose, abstruse, mellifluous, obtuse, denotative, platitudinous, pretentious, rhapsodic, teacherly, jamesian, idiosyncratic, whiggish, demotic, shavian, jejune, splenetic, exhortatory, waffly, pellucid, eloquent, billet doux, johnsonian, tricksy, glib, waspish, schoolmasterly, bathetic, unpublishable, handelian, easeful, essayistic, swiftian, onomatopoetic, discursive, acidulous, unmelodic, solipsistic, unscholarly, polemical, bromidic, banal, soporific, lexicographical, contentless, idiomatic, sneery, reductive, disobliging, uninflected, unimprovable, dostoevskian, pointillistic, declarative sentence, laurence sterne, tendentious, jesuitical, wordsworthian, mozartean, shakespearean sonnet, prefatory, unmusical, metrical, ex cathedra, pernickety, exordium, harangue, preamble, rhapsody, ante, apologia, apostrophe, armory, arsenal, artifice, cadenzas, caper, cavalcade, ceremonial, commonplaces, coronation, declamation, diatribe, discourse, display, winded, lengthy, succinct, prosy, concise, expository, panegyrical, lucid, laudatory, lengthier, autobiographic, informative, rhapsodical
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Also try:diffuse, long-winded, pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological, tedious, windy
— Nouns for prolix: style, writer, work, manner, account, narrative, description, discussion, detail, history, details, more...
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