| 单词 | prolix |
| 释义 | prolix (once / 5934 pages) adj A book that feels like it is several hundred pages longer than it needs to be is prolix. The word simply means that something has too many words and goes on too long. To avoid being called prolix, we'll keep this short. Prolix means using more words than necessary. For a less formal word choice try wordy, verbose, long-winded or drawn out. WORD FAMILYprolix: prolixity, prolixly, prolixness+/prolixity: prolixities USAGE EXAMPLESThere is Bill Clinton, generous and prolix, monologuing on politics and history in his own version of Asperger-like free association. Washington Post(Apr 18, 2016) Clinton did not mention Israel’s illegal military occupation once in her prolix address. Salon(Mar 22, 2016) Who among us can put a hand up and say: “I’ve read the whole thing”? Dreamy, prolix, funny – Proust is not intended to be finished. The Guardian(Jul 12, 2015) adj tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length editing a prolix manuscript a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know Syn|Ant diffuse lacking conciseness long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyusing or containing too many words verbalprolix pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautologicalrepetition of same sense in different words volublemarked by a ready flow of speech concise expressing much in few words aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammaticterse and witty and like a maxim briefconcise and succinct compact, compendious, succinct, summarybriefly giving the gist of something crisp, curt, laconic, tersebrief and to the point; effectively cut short cryptichaving a puzzling terseness elliptic, ellipticalcharacterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements pithy, sententiousconcise and full of meaning telegraphichaving the style of a telegram with many short words left out taciturnhabitually reserved and uncommunicative |
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