Prolix

Definition: Prolix

Prolix

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prolix" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Prolix \Pro*lix"\, adjective. [Latin expression prolixus extended, long, prolix, probably from pro before, forward liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; compare to Old Latin lixa water: compare to the French expression prolixe. See Liquid.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Prolix

Diffuseness

Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

Crosswords: Prolix

Latin (long, stretching), Romanian (diffuse, diffusely, long winded, prolix, verbose, wordy).

Albanian

i stërgjatur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكثار, ‏مهزار (long winded), ‏مولع بالإسهاب, ‏مسهب (ample, detailed, lengthy, redundant, verbose), ‏مطنب (lengthy, long winded, redundant, verbose, wordy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтеглен, разлят (diffuse, diffusive), отегчителен (boring, moldy, pesky, pestilent, prosy, provoking, tiresome, weary, wearying), многословен (circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, diffusive, exuberant, lengthy, long winded, redundant, verbose, wordy), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Czech

rozvláèný (circuitous, convoluted, diffuse, lengthy, long winded, wordy). (various references)

Farsi 

پرگو (Blabbermouth, Loquacious, Talkative, Verbose), طولانی (Great, Long), خسته کننده (Bore, Insipid, Monotonous, Tedious, Tiresome, Wearisome), روده دراز (Ileum), دراز (Lengthy, Linear, Longish, Oblong, String, Toom, Verbose). (various references)

French

prolixe. (various references)

German

weitschweifig (circuitous, circuitously, circumlocutory, diffuse, diffusely, long winded, prolixly, rambling, verbose). (various references)

Greek 

σχοινοτενήσ, πρώλιξ, πληκτικόσ (drab, dull, humdrum, sententious, uninteresting), απεραντολόγοσ (long winded). (various references)

Hebrew 

ארוך ומשעמם. (various references)

Hungarian

terjengõs (diffuse, lengthy, long winded, longspun, over-long, wordy), szószaporító, szószátyár (babbler, bag of wind, chatterbox, diffuse, gassy, jay, long winded, long-winded, windbag). (various references)

Italian

prolisso (diffuse, lengthy, long winded, verbose). (various references)

Manx

liauyr (big, drawn out, far-reaching, flowing of hair, lengthy, long, long-distance, sustained, tall, vermiform, wordy). (various references)

Pig Latin

olixpray

Portuguese

prolixo (absent-minded, diffuse, disseminated, dissipated, lengthy, overabundant, redundant, verbose, wordy), verboso (circumlocutional, garrulous, gassy, glib, hot-air, long-winded, verbose, wordy), tedioso (boring, drab, dull, lengthy, ponderous, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome), superabundante (overabundant, overflowing, redundant, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), difuso (absent-minded, diffuse, diffused, disseminated, dissipated, scattered). (various references)

Romanian

prolix (diffuse, diffusely, long winded, verbose, wordy), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, punctilious, scholastic). (various references)

Russian 

скучный (boring, drab, dry, dull, dull beggar, flat, heartbreaking, inanimate, insipid, irksome, jejune, languid, long, long winded, longspun, monotone, ponderous, tedious, trying, uninspiring, uninteresting, weariful, yawnful), подробный (circumstantial, detailed, minute, narrow, particular). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razvučen (lengthy, long-drawn, long-spun, wordy), rasplinut (incompact, lengthy, rambling), otegnut (protracted), dugačak (lengthy, long). (various references)

Spanish

prolijo (diffuse, discursive, long winded, tedious). (various references)

Swedish

vidlyftig (extensive, vast), långrandig (lengthy, longwinded, wordy). (various references)

Turkish

uzun (extended, far off, faraway, interminable, Lang, lengthy, long, long-, macro-, maxi-, prolonged, tall), sonu gelmeyen (no end of), sözü çok uzatan (long winded), bitmek bilmeyen (endless, everlasting, no end of). (various references)

Ukrainian

нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), багатослівний (circumlocutory, fluent, pleonastic, verbose, wordy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dông d� i; rườm r� , d� i dòng (longsome, sesquipedalian). (various references)

Welsh

anghryno (incompact), amleiriog (verbose, wordy). (various references)

prolixus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prolix": prolixities, prolixity, prolixly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prolix" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cromlix, Orplid, poix, polax, polox, Prodip, profix, proflix, proil, prolax, prolif, prolixe, Proulx, Pyrola. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: oxlip.

-2 letters: roil.

-3 letters: lip, lop, lox, oil, pix, poi, pol, pox, pro, rip.

-4 letters: li, lo, op, or, ox, pi, xi.

+2 letters: prolixly, proximal.

+3 letters: exploiter, exploring, plexiform, prolixity, pyridoxal, pyroxylin, xerophile, xerophily.

+4 letters: explicator, exploiters, proximally, pyridoxals, pyroxylins.

+5 letters: explicators, explicatory, exploration, explorative, multiplexor, overexplain, overexploit, paradoxical, peroxisomal, prolixities, prophylaxis, proximately, reexploring, xerophilies, xerophilous, xylographic.