adjective
definition
Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.
example
He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete.
Examples of long-winded in a Sentence
How often had he told him not to bother with the long winded explanations.
I wrote a long winded letter, I could never tell them in person.
They can be long-winded and tedious when listening to someone ramble on before they briefly encounter a point that they want to make.
You do n't need long-winded white papers and consultations.
Quickly get to the point of your letter and don't be long winded.
The poem is evidently intended to display the writer's knowledge of obscure names and uncommon myths; it is full of unusual words of doubtful meaning gathered from the older poets, and many long-winded compounds coined by the author.
The procedure can seem a bit long-winded at times.
By modern standards, it may well be rather long-winded.
Rick and I wrote the song and, although you wouldn't think so for such a simple song, it was very long-winded.
They may now understand why I had to be a little long-winded.
I could have opened up BBEdit or something similar and constructed the appropriate find and replace there, but that seemed annoyingly long-winded.
Some created arrays which they used as lookup lists while others did it the old fashioned way by writing long-winded IF.. .
You don't need long-winded white papers and consultations.
Why would you want to give your supplier an incentive to produce ' sloppy ', overly long winded text?
If this guide seems long winded it is because making mistakes when installing a Fireplace can have disastrous or even fatal results.
Back to top ANSWER in the correct manner 7 Do n't write in a long winded way.
Long-winded multi-page missives make employees groan and are often ignored.
It is important to note that a quality resignation letter is not long winded.
His romances have some likeness to those of Richard son; they are moral, long-winded, and slow in evolution, but written in an exquisite style, and with much knowledge of human nature.
The whole process is so long-winded and complicated that many farmers are unable to even understand the standard letters they are sent.
The process of business negotiation can be quite long-winded.
De nugis is a comparatively small book; if it were difficult to find leisure for that, much more would it have been difficult to find the time requisite for the composition of one only of the many long-winded romances which have been fathered on Map. Giraldus Cambrensis, with whom he was on most friendly terms, and who frequently refers to and quotes him, records a speech in which Map contrasted Giraldus' labours with his own, apparently to the disadvantage of the latter, "vos scripta dedistis, et nos verba" - a phrase which has been interpreted as meaning that Map himself had produced no literary work.