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longwinded
adjective as in indirect
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- circular
- circumlocutory
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
adjective as in interminable
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adjective as in lengthy
adjective as in long
adjective as in long-winded
adjective as in loquacious
adjective as in mouthy
adjective as in ponderous
adjective as in rambling
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adjective as in redundant
adjective as in repetitious
adjective as in talkative
adjective as in unexciting
adjective as in voluble
adjective as in windy
adjective as in wordy
adjective as in oratorical
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adjective as in conversational
adjective as in long-drawn-out
adjective as in periphrastic
adjective as in pleonastic
adjective as in talky
adjective as in diffuse
adjective as in discursive
adjective as in dull
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adjective as in gabby
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Example Sentences
Then Billy Harden gets the floor, and squares away fur a longwinded speech telling why.
We say that it is easier to teach a child by means of short pithy sentences than by longwinded and involved dittoes.
Judge Colver thereupon essayed, in his longwinded, heavy way, to impart to the new arrival the story they had just heard.
All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.
It could produce at once the longwinded rhapsodies of Filmer and, by repulsion, the wearisome reiterations of Algernon Sidney.
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On this page you'll find 761 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to longwinded, such as: ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, implied, incidental, and oblique.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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