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diffuse

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of diffuse

using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea

a diffuse speech that took a great deal of time to make a very small point

Synonyms of diffuse

circuitous, circumlocutory, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

Words Related to diffuse

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

redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated

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

Near Antonyms of diffuse

aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious

compendious, summary

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened

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

Antonyms of diffuse

compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse

Synonym Discussion of diffuse

wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse mean using more words than necessary to express thought. wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulity.

- a wordy speech

verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision.

- the verbose position papers

prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details.

- habitually transformed brief anecdotes into prolix sagas

diffuse stresses lack of compactness and pointedness of style.

- diffuse memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories

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