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81terse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. concise, brief, curt; pithy, laconic, succinct; short, compact. See maxim, shortness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. short, pithy, laconic, taut, compact, brief, concise, pointed, neat, exact,… …
82garrulous — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. talkative, loquacious, chattering; see talkative , verbose . See Synonym Study at talkative . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [GAR uh lus] talkative. They re a garrulous family; they ll talk your ear… …
83loquacious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. talkative, voluble, chattering, fluent; see talkative , verbose . See Synonym Study at talkative . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [loh KWAY shus] talkative, gabby. Talk show hosts are naturally… …
84pleonastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. repetitious, wordy, redundant; see oratorical , verbose . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Using or containing an excessive number of words: diffuse, long winded, periphrastic, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy. See… …
85rambling — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Strolling] Syn. roaming, sauntering, roving, wandering, walking, hiking, pRomenading, taking a walk, moving about, wandering about aimlessly, perambulatory, straggling, wayfaring, nomadic, meandering, taking an irregular …
86repetitious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boring, tedious, wordy, redundant; see dull 4 , verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. repetitive, redundant, tautological, wordy, long winded, verbose, boring, tedious, recurring. ANT.: concise, to the point, spare …
87rhetorical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. oratorical, bombastic, eloquent; see verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. expressive articulate, eloquent, fluent, persuasive, well said, *silver tongued. 2. grandiloquent magniloquent, bombastic, fustian,… …
88verb — [14] Latin verbum originally meant simply ‘word’ (a sense preserved in English verbal [15], verbiage [18], and verbose [17]); the specific application to a ‘word expressing action or occurrence’, which passed into English via Old French verbe, is …
89verbosity — (n.) 1540s, from Fr. verbosité (16c.) or directly from L. verbositas, from verbosus (see VERBOSE (Cf. verbose)) …
90garrulous — adjective 1) a garrulous old man Syn: talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, chatty, chattering, gossipy; effusive, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative; informal mouthy, gabby, gassy, windy, having the gift of the gab …
