4
periphrastic(adjective, style, words, excess, confused)
4
tiresome(adjective, boring, tedious, long, extended)
3
roundabout(adjective, rambling, circuitous, tortuous)
3
babbling(adjective, feature, characteristic, person)
3
blah(adjective, dull, boring, tedious)
3
circuitous(adjective, confused, ambiguous, pointless, rambling)
3
circumlocutory(dull, loose, ambiguous, rambling, incidental)
3
communicative(adjective, feature, characteristic, person)
3
conversational(adjective, talkative)
3
digressive(adjective, dull, loose, confused, pointless)
3
humdrum(adjective, dull, boring, tedious, tiresome)
3
indirect(adjective, rambling, circuitous, tortuous, unintended)
3
inflated(noble, loud, pretentious, rambling, wordy)
3
meandering(adjective, dull, loose, ambiguous, rambling)
3
monotonous(adjective, dull, boring, tedious, tiresome)
3
over-long
3
profuse(adjective, feature, characteristic, person, dull)
3
rhetorical(pretentious, rambling, talkative, wordy, prolix)
3
turgid(pretentious, rambling, wordy, prolix, verbose)
2
copious(dull, loose, wordy, prolix, verbose)
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