Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wearisomely verbose: a long-winded speaker. See Synonyms at wordy.
- adj. Able to maintain breathing power during exertion: a long-winded swimmer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Long-breathed; using much breath by prolonged speech.
- Tedious from length; of a wearisome or burdensome length: said of speech or writing.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time.
- adj. using or containing too many words.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. using or containing too many words
Etymologies
- Figurative, from long + winded (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From the Brooklyn Cyclones dugout at MCU Park, Frank Viola mostly speaks in long-winded anecdotes—one regarding a 1969 Jerry Koosman pitching clinic flows into another about meeting catcher Victor Martinez at spring training—in a Long Island accent not the least bit tempered by his 15-year pitching career spent mostly as a Minnesota Twin.”
“Not only a bigot, but a long-winded bigot. * spits*.”
“Save the long-winded explanations about how this is so for later, when the idea is more common than “death panels”.”
“Direct marketers produce ugly, cheesy, long-winded stuff that CONVERT better.”
“Carroll's essay offers us a moment of clarity given that it is nothing more than a long-winded rationalization for closed-mindedness.”
“The baddies are these still the families? turned out to be evil capitalists trying to control the economy, in an admittedly long-winded way.”
“My reply was more of a long-winded plea for sanity to the people who should be setting the example.”
“It's not that I wouldn't enjoy those kinds of stories, but I hold a prejudice against them due to their long-winded nature.”
“Now the entire next season will probably involve a long-winded story arc of Clark's new nemesis: His tailor.”
“But by the time I got around to Goblet of Fire, I found the books to be long-winded and lacking in surprise, even though they still held that indelible style from Rowling.”
Rabid Reads: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" J.K. Rowling
Lists
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
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Belgen GRE Preparation
just learning to love words
tumescence, anodyne, long-winded, rout, perigee, pilfer, rue, knotty, snarl, ensconce, reprieve, collate
Tweets
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zc0000 Lookarounds allow you to create regular expressions that are impossible to create without them, or that would get very longwinded without them. Jun 3, 2010
bilby None of us want to 'fess up, eh? Oct 4, 2008