Long Winded

Word LONG WINDED
Character 11
Hyphenation long -wind ed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Long Winded"

What do we mean by long winded?

Wearisomely verbose: synonym: wordy. adjective

Able to maintain breathing power during exertion. adjective

Long-breathed; using much breath by prolonged speech.

Tedious from length; of a wearisome or burdensome length: said of speech or writing.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time. adjective

Using or containing too many words. adjective

Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose. adjective

Using or containing too many words adjective

Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.

Boring and long in speaking or writing, wherein there does not seem to be much particular relevance or significance; as such is typically extolled by individuals who are oblivous and synonymously known as a gas bag, wind bag, blow hard, bloviate, etc.; or, otherwise, is expressed by a persons who is so over fraught with an idea that they are not able to explain it plain and simply. Urban Dictionary

A long winded but short witted individual who can talk for hours about things he has no clue about. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is constantly talking & repeating verbal garbage that comes across as brazen & contrived which also happens to smell like a smelly Fart Urban Dictionary

Refers to any meeting between two or more people that takes place after they have all partaken of voluminous quantities of baked beans or spiced cabbage, resulting in a comparably voluminous quantity of drawn-out butt-trumpet rasps. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Long Winded

The word "long-winded" in example sentences

So that's a very long-winded way to say that I hate to break it to progressives, but I don't think that the next two years are going to be looking a lot better than the last two years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now the entire next season will probably involve a long-winded story arc of Clark's new nemesis: His tailor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Direct marketers produce ugly, cheesy, long-winded stuff that CONVERT better. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, I can't really criticize a fantasy novel for feeling a bit long-winded, when most of Zimmer's peers consider five hundred pages to be brief. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My reply was more of a long-winded plea for sanity to the people who should be setting the example. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you found a bunch of long-winded vegans out in the woods hunting and eating animals, you might think that they were not really serious about their professed beliefs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not only a bigot, but a long-winded bigot. * spits*. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Carroll's essay offers us a moment of clarity given that it is nothing more than a long-winded rationalization for closed-mindedness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Who cares if it's a bit long-winded, or a bit confusing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The baddies are these still the families? turned out to be evil capitalists trying to control the economy, in an admittedly long-winded way. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Save the long-winded explanations about how this is so for later, when the idea is more common than “death panels”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Amara Grautski (2011)

Example 1: The President of the Board of Commissioners is a real [blow hard], as it never fails that he has to [stonewall] through the entire meeting and [grandstand] everyone with his long winded sessions, not letting anyone have equal time to particpate or counter his position. Example 2: She failed to get support from voters when she made a long winded presentation to the Board of Commissioners, instead of a well planned out and well considered offer. ❋ Z Last Words (2009)

[At the end of the day], [Asif's] name was [long wind]. ❋ John Hgfyugyighuhyu (2005)

[Annette] was buzzing in everyone's ear about process-flow, productivity numbers and [metrics] during our weekly "Long Winded Fart-Hole [conference call]." ❋ Jimmny Cricket (2011)

"[July] is National [baked bean] Month" Pppppppp-rrrrrttttt. "Excuse me." Google "[baked beans] speech" for the entire hilarious long-winded discussion. ❋ QuacksO (2017)

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