overblown/wordy

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  1. overblown
    puffed up with vanity
  2. wordy
    using or containing too many words
  3. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  4. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  5. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  6. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  7. periphrastic
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  8. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  9. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  10. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  11. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  12. verbose
    using or containing too many words
Created on 七月 1, 2010 (updated 七月 1, 2010)

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