PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: ADJECTIVE
- Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- Tending to speak or write at excessive length. : wordy.
- Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken
- Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.
- Tediously lengthy.
- Tending to use large or obscure words, which few understand.
- Tediously prolonged; wordy.
- Repetition of same sense in different words
- Of, or relating to pleonasm.
- Using an excessive number of words; especially using different words having the same meaning.
PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Long; extended.
- Of long duration.
- Long and wordy; extending to a great length; diffuse: as, a prolix oration or sermon.
- Indulging in lengthy discourse; discussing at great length; tedious: as, a prolix speaker or writer.
- Synonyms Long, lengthy, wordy, long-winded, spun out, prolonged.
- Tiresome, wearisome.
- Repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words
- Characterized by pleonasm or redundancy; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: RELATED WORDS
- Sesquipedalian, Grandiloquent, Digressive, Pedantic, Tautologic, Pleonastic, Long winded, Diffuse, Windy, Verbal, Redundant, Tedious, Tautological, Wordy, Verbose
- Perissology, Hypermetric, Circumlocutious, Circumlocutional, Autological, Circumlocutionary, Superfluous, Tautologize, Perissological, Tautologous, Supervacaneous, Tautological, Tautologic, Redundant, Prolix
PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sesquipedalian, Grandiloquent, Digressive, Pedantic, Tautologic, Pleonastic, Long winded, Diffuse, Windy, Verbal, Redundant, Tedious, Tautological, Wordy, Verbose
- Perissology, Hypermetric, Circumlocutious, Circumlocutional, Autological, Circumlocutionary, Superfluous, Tautologize, Perissological, Tautologous, Supervacaneous, Tautological, Tautologic, Redundant, Prolix
PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The new Act also has eliminated prolix provisions that sought to restate agency law rules on notice and knowledge.
- ANION TO KANT In an age of wordy authors, Jacobi was an especially prolix writer.
- The new constitution was an original work, but it was long, detailed, and prolix.
- The article is too prolix so it doesn't urge to read it.
- The historians of this period, prolix and ducursive, were of less value.
- Hence two common phrases, consensus of opinion and general consensus, are prolix.
- The default configuration turns on server debugging, which is prolix and should be turned off for production.
- It turned out to be a somewhat prolix account of time measurement and perception.
- ANT: Coarse, rough, rude, unpolished, inconcise, unsuccinct, prolix, diffuse.
- These offices are prolix and sometimes slightly bizarre.
- The pleonastic participles nasta THE INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLE.
- The female termination in such examples is not wanted; it would be pleonastic and improper.
- QTSM may generate more pleonastic patches for integration, thus resulting in low efficiency of computation.
- Expletive, pleonastic, or dummy subjects have been crucial to syntactic argumentation.
PROLIX vs PLEONASTIC: QUESTIONS
- What are some possible answers for the crossword clue prolix?
- What are some examples of pleonastic negative in English?