prolix
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Tediously lengthy and wordy in speech or writing.
The reviewer complained that the treatise was so prolix that its central argument was buried under needless digression.
Law adjective
Tediously long-winded, as of a pleading or submission.
The judge criticised the prolix particulars of claim, which ran to ninety pages where ten would have sufficed.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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