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long-winded adjective [ ˌlɒŋˈwɪndɪd ]

• (of speech or writing) continuing at tedious length.
• "a long-winded question"
Similar: lengthy, long, overlong, prolonged, protracted, long-drawn-out, interminable, tedious, wearisome, boring, discursive, diffuse, rambling, meandering, repetitious, tautological, periphrastic, circumlocutory, tortuous, verbose, wordy, prolix, windy, pleonastic, ambagious, sesquipedalian,
Opposite: concise, succinct, laconic,
• capable of doing something for a long time without becoming breathless.


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