Long-winded
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Origin
Figurative, from long + winded
Full definition of long-winded
Adjective
long-winded
- Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.
- He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course Chapter 8But which analysis is the right one? Well, as in any serious field of research, the consequences of making different assumptions about a particular phenomenon are often so complex and far-reaching that the full implications of the decision to adopt one analysis rather than another are not always immediately apparent. Thatʼs a rather long-winded way of saying that itʼs not always obvious what the right answer is!