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  1. ambagious
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  2. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  3. chatty
    full of trivial conversation
  4. circumlocutory
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  5. diffuse
    lacking conciseness
  6. digressive
    (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
  7. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  8. gabby
    full of trivial conversation
  9. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  10. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  11. inflated
    pretentious, especially with regard to language or ideals
  12. lengthy
    extended in duration
  13. long-winded
    using or containing too many words
  14. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  15. periphrastic
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  16. pleonastic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  17. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  18. protracted
    relatively long in duration
  19. rambling
    straying from the main point or covering a range of subjects
  20. redundant
    repeating the same sense in different words
  21. repetitious
    characterized by doing or performing again
  22. rhetorical
    emphasizing style at the expense of thought
  23. talkative
    full of trivial conversation
  24. talky
    full of trivial conversation
  25. tautologic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  26. tautological
    characterized by unnecessary repetition
  27. tedious
    using or containing too many words
  28. tortuous
    highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
  29. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  30. verbal
    prolix
  31. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  32. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  33. windy
    using or containing too many words
Created on Tue Apr 09 12:18:26 EDT 2024 (updated Tue Apr 09 12:24:00 EDT 2024)

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