long-winded
/ˌlɒŋˈwɪndɪd
/adjective
1(Of speech or writing) continuing at tedious length: a long-winded question...
- The guy thinks that attending court receptions with boring old guys reciting long-winded speeches is fun!
- In a long-winded speech peppered with German phrases no one else understood, he made it sound as if television was right up there with sharing dirty needles or deforestation.
- In another room, long-winded speeches are given.
Synonyms
lengthy, long, overlong, prolonged, protracted, long-drawn-out, interminable, tedious, wearisome, boring;
discursive, diffuse, rambling, meandering, repetitious, tautological, periphrastic, circumlocutory, tortuous, verbose, wordy, prolix
informal windy
rare pleonastic, ambagious, sesquipedalian
2 archaic Capable of doing something for a long time without becoming breathless.
Derivatives
long-windedly
- Even the ones I long-windedly quote, Galbraith and Ormerod, are not exactly anti-capitalism, free markets or globalisation.
- The subject tends to take over the poetry long-windedly and makes many of the poems interchangeable.
long-windedness
/ noun ...- There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench.
- Then the long-windedness gets boring without vocals to guide it.
- Election Night coverage on TV tends to become a marathon of long-windedness.