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Adjective: prolix  prow-liks or prow'liks
  1. 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";
    - verbal

See also: diffuse, long-winded, long-windedness, pleonastic, prolixity, prolixness, redundant, tautologic, tautological, tedious, verbose, voluble, windiness, windy [informal], wordiness, wordy

Antonym: concise

Encyclopedia: Prolix