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prolix

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15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹəʊ.lɪks/ (UK)
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/ˈpɹəʊ.lɪks/ (UK) · /pɹoʊˈlɪks/ (US)

Definition of prolix

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
    “"Give me but the luxury of answering to one of his prolix, contradictory speeches, and...I only ask the revenge of a reply."”
    “People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.”
    “From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as "Procrastination is the Thief of Time and "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness."”
    “Traditional narratives he found too prolix and discursive. "There's always 14 pages describing a lawn that you skip over," he says.”
    “Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!”
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adj

  1. Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
    “"Give me but the luxury of answering to one of his prolix, contradictory speeches, and...I only ask the revenge of a reply."”
    “People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.”
    “From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as "Procrastination is the Thief of Time and "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness."”
    “Traditional narratives he found too prolix and discursive. "There's always 14 pages describing a lawn that you skip over," he says.”
    “Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!”
  2. (obsolete)Long; having great length.

verb

  1. (rare)To be tediously lengthy.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus (“stretched out; courteous, favorable”). The verb is derived from the adjective.

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