Word Meanings - PROLIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written

Additional info about word: PROLIX

pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist. Cowper. 2. Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer. Syn. -- Long; diffuse; prolonged; protracted; tedious; tiresome; wearisome. -- Prolix, Diffuse. A prolix writer delights in circumlocution, extended detail, and trifling particulars. A diffuse writer is fond of amplifying, and abounds in epithets, figures, and illustrations. Diffuseness often arises from an exuberance of imagination; prolixity is generally connected with a want of it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROLIX)

• Diffuse
• Discursive
• prolix
• verbose
• diluted
• copious
• Lengthy
• tedious
• long-drawn
• Long
• Protracted
• produced
• dilatory
• lengthy
• extensive
• diffuse
• far-reaching
• Prosaic
• Pull
• matter-of-fact
• Tedious
• Wearisome
• tiresome
• monotonous
• dreary
• sluggish
• irksome
• dull
• flat

Related words: (words related to PROLIX)

• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• IRKSOME
  1. Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton. 2. Weary; vexed; uneasy. Let us therefore learn not to
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• DILUTER
  One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
• DIFFUSER
  One who, or that which, diffuses.
• MONOTONOUS
  Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.
• PROTRACTILE
  Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• PROTRACT
  To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. (more info) 1. To draw out or lengthen in time or in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war. 2. To put off to
• DIFFUSENESS
  The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
• PROSAIC; PROSAICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. Cudworth. 2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. Ed. Rev. --
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again