Word Meanings - PROLIXIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.

NICETY
1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
PROLIXIOUS
Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
TEDIOUS
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
DILATORY
dilatus, used as p. p. of differe to defer, delay: cf. F. dilatoire. 1. Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant. 2. Marked by
SUPERFLUOUS
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. Shak. An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous. E. Everett. Superfluous interval
OVERTEDIOUS
Too tedious.
INDILATORY
Not dilatory.