Word Meanings - PROLIXIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
Related words: (words related to PROLIXIOUS)
- 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.