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111wordy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. verbose, talkative, loquacious, prolix, garrulous; rambling, circumlocutory, windy, long winded. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. verbose, tedious, bombastic, prolix, long winded; see… …
112periphrastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. equivocal, roundabout, circumlocutory; see obscure 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Using or containing an excessive number of words: diffuse, long winded, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, verbose, wordy. See… …
113redundant — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Needless] Syn. superfluous, irrelevant, excess; see excessive , superfluous , unnecessary . 2. [Repetitious] Syn. verbose, wordy, repetitive, tautological; see verbose . See Synonym Study at verbose . II (Roget s 3… …
114tautological — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. repetitious, redundant, reiterative, pleonastic; see illogical . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by repetition and excessive wordiness: circumlocutionary, roundabout. See REPETITION, WORDS …
115Repetition — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Repetition >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 iteration iteration reiteration harping recurrence succession run Sgm: N 1 battology battology tautology Sgm: N 1 monotony monotony tautophony …
116Diffuseness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Diffuseness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 diffuseness diffuseness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 amplification amplification &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 dilating dilating &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 verbosity verbosity verbiage …
117he — O.E. he (see paradigm of Old English third person pronoun below), from P.Gmc. *hi (Cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.Du. he, hi, Du. hy, O.H.G. he), from PIE *ki , variant of *ko , the this, here (as opposed to that, there ) root (Cf. Hittite ki this, Gk.… …
118sledge — {{11}}sledge (1) heavy hammer, O.E. slecg, from P.Gmc. *slagj (Cf. O.N. sleggja, M.Swed. sleggia sledgehammer ), related to slean to strike (see SLAY (Cf. slay)). SLEDGEHAMMER (Cf. Sledgehammer) thus is pleonastic. {{12}} …
119such — O.E. swylc, swilc from a P.Gmc. compound *swalikaz so formed (Cf. O.S. sulik, O.N. slikr, O.Fris. selik, M.Du. selc, Du. zulk, O.H.G. sulih, Ger. solch, Goth. swaleiks), from swa so (see SO (Cf …
120pleonasm — [ pli:ə(ʊ)ˌnaz(ə)m] noun the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one s eyes). Derivatives pleonastic adjective pleonastically adverb Origin C16: via late L. from Gk pleonasmos, from pleonazein be superfluous …
