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Antonyms for longwinded
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : lawng-win-did, long- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɔŋˈwɪn dɪd, ˈlɒŋ- |
- abbreviated
- abridged
- active
- airy
- bounded
- brief
- bright
- buoyant
- calm
- ceasing
- clear
- close-mouthed
- coherent
- compact
- compressed
- concentrated
- concise
- confined
- connected
- creative
- curtailed
- delicate
- direct
- ending
- ephemeral
- essential
- evanescent
- eventful
- exciting
- finite
- fleeting
- formal
- fun
- halting
- happy
- imaginative
- intelligent
- interesting
- intermittent
- interrupted
- keen
- knifelike
- light
- limited
- lively
- luminous
- lustrous
- mum
- natural
- necessary
- needed
- on time
- pleasant
- pointed
- quick
- quiet
- reserved
- restrained
- restricted
- secretive
- sensitive
- serrated
- sharp
- short
- shortened
- silent
- simple
- single
- singular
- smart
- still
- stopping
- straight
- straightforward
- subdued
- succinct
- temporary
- terminable
- transient
- unburdensome
- uncommunicative
- undramatic
- unresponsive
- untalkative
- vivacious
- witty
Definition of longwinded
Origin :- also longwinded, 1580s, "given to lengthy speeches," from long (adj.) + wind (n.) in the secondary Middle English sense "breath in speaking" (early 14c.).
- As in indirect : adj roundabout; unintended
- As in interminable : adj infinite
- As in lengthy : adj extended
- As in long : adj interminable, excessive in length
- As in long-winded : adj wordy
- As in loquacious : adj talkative
- As in mouthy : adj talkative
- As in ponderous : adj dreary, tedious
- As in rambling : adj disconnected, wordy
- As in redundant : adj excessive; repetitious
- As in repetitious : adj wordy, tedious
- As in talkative : adj excessively communicative
- As in unexciting : adj dull
- As in voluble : adj talkative
- As in windy : adj talkative; boastful
- As in wordy : adj talkative
- As in oratorical : adj rhetorical
- As in conversational : adj talkative
- As in long-drawn-out : adj long
- As in periphrastic : adj wordy
- As in pleonastic : adj wordy
- As in talky : adj talkative
- As in diffuse : adj wordy
- As in discursive : adj rambling
- As in dull : adj boring, uninteresting
- As in gabby : adj talkative
- As in garrulous : adj talkative
- All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.
- Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
- Then Billy Harden gets the floor, and squares away fur a longwinded speech telling why.
- Extract from : « Danny's Own Story » by Don Marquis
- We say that it is easier to teach a child by means of short pithy sentences than by longwinded and involved dittoes.
- Extract from : « The Nurserymatograph » by A Lawyer
- It could produce at once the longwinded rhapsodies of Filmer and, by repulsion, the wearisome reiterations of Algernon Sidney.
- Extract from : « Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham » by Harold J. Laski
- Judge Colver thereupon essayed, in his longwinded, heavy way, to impart to the new arrival the story they had just heard.
- Extract from : « The Man from Jericho » by Edwin Carlile Litsey
Synonyms for longwinded
- abused
- alliterative
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- archaic
- arid
- articulate
- babbling
- barren
- big yawn
- big-mouthed
- bigmouthed
- blabbermouth
- blabby
- blah
- bombastic
- boring
- boundless
- cardboard
- casual
- ceaseless
- chattering
- chatty
- circuitous
- circular
- circumlocutory
- collateral
- colloquial
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- complicated
- confused
- constant
- contingent
- continuous
- conversational
- copious
- crooked
- day-and-night
- de trop
- dead
- declamatory
- delayed
- desultory
- deviating
- devious
- diffuse
- diffusive
- digressive
- dilatory
- discursive
- disjointed
- dismal
- dragged out
- dragging
- dramatic
- drawn-out
- dreary
- driveling
- dry
- dull
- duplicitous
- echoic
- effusive
- elaborate
- elocutionary
- elongate
- elongated
- eloquent
- empty
- endless
- erratic
- eternal
- eventual
- everlasting
- excursive
- expressive
- extra
- extravagant
- exuberant
- familiar
- fervid
- flap jaw
- flat
- flatulent
- fluent
- for ages
- forceful
- forever and a day
- full of hot air
- gabby
- garrulous
- gesticulative
- gesturing
- glib
- gossiping
- gossipy
- grandiloquent
- gushing
- hackneyed
- heavy
- histrionic
- ho hum
- hoary
- humdrum
- immeasurable
- impassioned
- implied
- important
- imposing
- incessant
- incidental
- incoherent
- incongruous
- inessential
- inflated
- informal
- inordinate
- insipid
- interminable
- interminate
- intimate
- intoning
- irregular
- iterant
- iterating
- iterative
- jabbering
- jejune
- labored
- late
- lavish
- lengthened
- lengthy
- lifeless
- limitless
- lingering
- lofty
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- longish
- longwinded
- looped
- loose
- loose-lipped
- loose-tongued
- loquacious
- loud
- loudmouthed
- meandering
- monotonous
- motormouth
- mouthy
- multiloquent
- never-ending
- no end of
- no end to
- noble
- noisy
- oblique
- obscure
- oft-repeated
- on a treadmill
- oratorical
- ordinary
- orotund
- ostentatious
- out-of-date
- out-of-the-way
- overlong
- padded
- palaverous
- pedantic
- pedestrian
- periphrastic
- permanent
- perpetual
- persuasive
- plain
- plangent
- pleonastic
- plodding
- pointless
- pompous
- prating
- prattling
- profuse
- prolix
- prolonged
- prosaic
- prosy
- protracted
- rambling
- random
- ranting
- rattling
- recapitulatory
- redundant
- reiterating
- reiterative
- relaxed
- repeating
- repetitious
- repetitive
- resonant
- rhetorical
- roaming
- routine
- roving
- run-of-the-mill
- running on
- running on at the mouth
- secondary
- senatorial
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- slick
- slow
- smooth
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- soporific
- spare
- spreading
- spun out
- stagy
- stale
- stentorian
- stiff
- stilted
- stock
- stodgy
- strung out
- stuffy
- stupid
- stylistic
- subsidiary
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- supernumerary
- surplus
- sustained
- talkative
- talky
- tame
- tardy
- tautological
- tedious
- theatrical
- timeless
- tired
- tiresome
- tortuous
- trite
- tumid
- turgid
- twisting
- unbound
- unceasing
- underhand
- unending
- uneventful
- unimaginative
- uninspiring
- uninteresting
- uninterrupted
- unlimited
- unnecessary
- unwanted
- usual
- usual thing
- vagrant
- vague
- vapid
- verbal
- verbose
- very long
- vivid
- vocal
- vociferous
- voluble
- waffling
- wandering
- wearisome
- wind-bag
- winding
- windy
- without end
- wooden
- wordy
- worn-out
- yacking
- yakkity
- yakky
- zigzag
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