| Main Entry: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
Synonyms: |
circumlocutory, copious, diffusive, digressive, discursive, dull, exuberant, lavish, lengthy, long, long-winded, loose, meandering, palaverous, profuse, prolix, rambling, random, redundant, vague, verbose, waffling, windy |
Antonyms: |
abbreviated, abridged, brief, short, succinct |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
Synonyms: |
deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | gabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
chattering, chatty, effusive, garrulous, glib, gossiping, gushing, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, loquacious, mouthy, prattling, prolix, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
close-mouthed, quiet, secretive |
| Main Entry: | garrulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
babbling, blabbermouth, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw, gabby, glib, gossiping, gushing, long-winded, loose-lipped, loose-tongued, loquacious, motormouth, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, running on at the mouth, verbose, voluble, wind-bag, windy, wordy, yakkity, yakky |
Antonyms: |
mum, quiet, reserved, silent, still, untalkative |
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long way home, long-drawn-out, long-winded, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, rambling, secondary, serpentine, sidelong, sinister, sinuous, snaking, sneaking, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, twisting, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
direct, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | interminable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite |
Synonyms: |
boring, boundless, ceaseless, constant, continuous, day-and-night, dragged out, dull, endless, eternal, everlasting, immeasurable, incessant, interminate, limitless, long, long-drawn-out, long-winded, looped, never-ending, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill, permanent, perpetual, protracted, spun out, strung out, timeless, unbound, unceasing, uninterrupted, unlimited, wearisome |
Antonyms: |
bounded, ending, finite, terminable |
| Main Entry: | lengthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended |
Synonyms: |
diffuse, dragging, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, interminable, lengthened, long, long-winded, longish, overlong, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, tedious, tiresome, verbose, very long, wearisome, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
abbreviated, curtailed, shortened |
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interminable, excessive in length |
Synonyms: |
boundless, delayed, diffuse, diffusive, dilatory, dragging, drawn-out, for ages, forever and a day, late, lengthy, limitless, lingering, long-drawn-out, long-winded, overlong, prolix, prolonged, protracted, slow, sustained, tardy, unending, verbose, without end, wordy |
Antonyms: |
ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, short |
| Main Entry: | long-winded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, palaverous, prolix, rambling, talkative, verbose, voluble |
| Main Entry: | loquacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
babbling, chattering, chatty, fluent, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble, wordy, yacking |
| Notes: | loquacious means very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
Antonyms: |
quiet, restrained, silent, subdued |