long-winded

Synonyms

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy;

Antonyms

compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse;

Near Antonyms

brief, short;

aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious;

compendious, summary;

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened;

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy;

Related Words

chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble;

periphrastic;

redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous;

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated;

bombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin);