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{"id": "prolix", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "prolix", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "prolixity", "text": "prolixity"}, {"id": "prolixly", "text": "prolixly"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English: from Old French prolixe or Latin prolixus \u2018poured forth, extended\u2019, from pro- \u2018outward\u2019 + liquere \u2018be liquid\u2019"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/prolix_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8pr\u0259\u028al\u026aks"}, {"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/prolix_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "pr\u0259\u02c8l\u026aks"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["(of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy"], "examples": [{"text": "he found the narrative too prolix and discursive"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0820160.008", "shortDefinitions": ["using or containing too many words"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "lengthy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "long-winded"}, {"language": "en", "text": "long-drawn-out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "overlong"}, {"language": "en", "text": "prolonged"}, {"language": "en", "text": "protracted"}, {"language": "en", "text": "interminable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "laborious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ponderous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "endless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unending"}, {"language": "en", "text": "verbose"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wordy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "full of verbiage"}, {"language": "en", "text": "verbal"}, {"language": "en", "text": "diffuse"}, {"language": "en", "text": "discursive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "digressive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rambling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wandering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "circuitous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "meandering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "maundering"}, {"language": "en", "text": "periphrastic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "circumlocutory"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "prolix", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0011689.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "prolix"}], "type": "headword", "word": "prolix"}], "word": "prolix"}
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