Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wearisomely verbose: synonym: wordy.
- adjective Able to maintain breathing power during exertion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Long-breathed; using much breath by prolonged speech.
- Tedious from length; of a wearisome or burdensome length: said of speech or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time.
- adjective using or containing too many words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tediously
long inspeaking ; consuming muchtime ; unnecessarilyverbose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using or containing too many words
Etymologies
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Examples
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My reply was more of a long-winded plea for sanity to the people who should be setting the example.
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It's not that I wouldn't enjoy those kinds of stories, but I hold a prejudice against them due to their long-winded nature.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Direct marketers produce ugly, cheesy, long-winded stuff that CONVERT better.
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The baddies are these still the families? turned out to be evil capitalists trying to control the economy, in an admittedly long-winded way.
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Carroll's essay offers us a moment of clarity given that it is nothing more than a long-winded rationalization for closed-mindedness.
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Save the long-winded explanations about how this is so for later, when the idea is more common than “death panels”.
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Not only a bigot, but a long-winded bigot. * spits*.
Oath of Office 2009
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From the Brooklyn Cyclones dugout at MCU Park, Frank Viola mostly speaks in long-winded anecdotes—one regarding a 1969 Jerry Koosman pitching clinic flows into another about meeting catcher Victor Martinez at spring training—in a Long Island accent not the least bit tempered by his 15-year pitching career spent mostly as a Minnesota Twin.
Clout for the Cyclones Amara Grautski 2011
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Not only a bigot, but a long-winded bigot. * spits*.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Carroll's essay offers us a moment of clarity given that it is nothing more than a long-winded rationalization for closed-mindedness.
bilby commented on the word long-winded
None of us want to 'fess up, eh?
October 5, 2008
zc0000 commented on the word long-winded
Lookarounds allow you to create regular expressions that are impossible to create without them, or that would get very longwinded without them.
June 3, 2010