mindmap root((啰嗦)) wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulousness: a ~ speech that said nothing. verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision: ~ position papers that on one reads. prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details: habitually transformed brief anecdotes into ~ sagas. diffuse stresses lack of the organization and compactness that make for pointedness of expression and strength of style: ~ memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories. redundant implies superfluity resulting from needless repetition or overelaboration: emended the text by removing whatever was ~.