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Word Meanings - PROLIXIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.

 

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