| Main Entry: | verbose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy, long-winded |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking |
Antonyms: |
concise, succinct |
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
Synonyms: |
aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| Main Entry: | copious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
Synonyms: |
a mess of, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, coming out of ears, crawling with, extensive, exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix, replete, rich, superabundant, thick with, verbose, wordy |
Antonyms: |
lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce, wanting |
| 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: | effusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gushing, profuse |
Synonyms: |
all jaw, big mouthed, demonstrative, ebullient, enthusiastic, expansive, extravagant, exuberant, free-flowing, fulsome, gabby, gushy, lavish, outpouring, overflowing, prolix, talkative, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Main Entry: | flowery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornate, especially referring to speech or writing |
Synonyms: |
aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, embellished, euphemistic, euphuistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, ornamented, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
inelaborate, plain, unembellished, unflowery, unornate |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
Synonyms: |
chatty, cogent, copious, cursive, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluent, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued, smooth, smooth-spoken, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-versed, wordy |
Antonyms: |
effortful, hesitant, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared |
| 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: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
Synonyms: |
aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |