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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to prolix:   (150 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

Appears in the definition of:
at length, lengthily, verbal

Synonyms:
diffuse, long-winded, pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological, tedious, verbal, verbose, windy, wordy

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— Nouns for prolix: style, writer, work, manner, account, narrative, description, discussion detail, history, details, more...

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