prolix

/proʊˈlɪks/

Other forms: prolixly

A book that feels like it is several hundred pages longer than it needs to be is prolix. The word simply means that something has too many words and goes on too long.

To avoid being called prolix, we'll keep this short. Prolix means using more words than necessary. For a less formal word choice try wordy, verbose, long-winded or drawn out.

Definitions of prolix

1. adjective

   tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
   “editing a prolix manuscript”

   “a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know”

   synonyms:

   diffuse

   lacking conciseness

   long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy

   using or containing too many words

   verbal

   prolix

   pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological

   repetition of same sense in different words

   voluble

   marked by a ready flow of speech

   antonyms:

   concise

   expressing much in few words

   aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic

   terse and witty and like a maxim

   brief

   concise and succinct

   compact, compendious, succinct, summary

   briefly giving the gist of something

   crisp, curt, laconic, terse

   brief and to the point; effectively cut short

   cryptic

   having a puzzling terseness

   elliptic, elliptical

   characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements

   pithy, sententious

   concise and full of meaning

   telegraphic

   having the style of a telegram with many short words left out

   taciturn

   habitually reserved and uncommunicative