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Definition: Long-winded |
Long-windedAdjective1. Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "long-winded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | LONG-WINDED. A long-winded parson; one who preached long, tedious sermons. A long-winded paymaster; one who takes long credit. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Long-windedSynonyms: tedious (adj), verbose (adj), windy (adj), wordy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Diuturnity | Lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out; Verb: long-pending, long-winded; slow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Long-winded |
| English words defined with "long-winded": Long-breathed, Longspun. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've never had anything to say about that long-winded jackanapes, but he sure does know a way how to start a war. (The Alamo; writing credit: James Edward Grant) | |
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| "Long-winded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Long-winded" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "long-winded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pitkäveteinen (lengthy, tedious), pitkäpiimäinen (long-drawn-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | laïus (long spiel, long-winded speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szószátyár (babbler, bag of wind, chatterbox, diffuse, gassy, jay, long winded, prolix, windbag), nem kifulladó, hosszadalmas (circumstantial, lengthy, lingering, livelong, long, long-drawn-out, roundabout, wearisome), bőbeszédű (garrulous, glib, redundant, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 長談議 (long-winded speech), 長談義 (long-winded speech), 長広舌 (long talk, long-winded speech), うたた寝 (dozing, idle, long-winded and meaningless, napping on the floor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なが "ぎ (long-winded speech), う う (idle, long-winded and meaningless), ちょう"うぜつ (long talk, long-winded speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | veih Sauin gys Boaldyn, foddey-ennalagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ong-windedlay многословный (circumlocutory, diffuse, diffusive, mouthy, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy). (various references) d i hơi d i dòng, chán ngắt (dull, dullness, dully, dulness, mouldy, pedestrian, prosaic, tedious, wearied, weary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "long-winded" (pronounced 'Long"-wind"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Abstorted, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bloody-minded, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Encysted, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, hearted, high-minded, interrelated, Lered, Longheaded, Maked, malcontented. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: doweling, endowing, noddling. | |
-3 letters: downing, dwindle, endlong, glenoid, indowed, lending, nodding, wedding, welding, wendigo, wending, widgeon, windled. | |
-4 letters: dewing, dildoe, dindle, dinged, dingle, dinned, doiled, doling, dongle, donned, dowing, downed, dwined, eloign, ending, engild, enwind, gilded, ginned, glided, glowed, golden, gowned, indole, legion, linden, lodged, longed, lowing, noddle, online, owning, widdle, wigeon, winded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 6F 6E 67 2D 77 69 6E 64 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00101101 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L o n g - w i n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 006F 006E 0067 002D 0077 0069 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4681807315897580707170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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