prolixとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus (“stretched out; courteous, favorable”). The verb is derived from the adjective.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹəʊ.lɪks/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pɹoʊˈlɪks/
• 韻: -əʊlɪks, -ɪks

形容詞

prolix (comparative more prolix, superlative most prolix)

1. Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.

   Synonyms: verbose; see also Thesaurus:verbose

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:concise

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 298:

     "Give me but the luxury of answering to one of his prolix, contradictory speeches, and...I only ask the revenge of a reply."

   • 1843, G. C. Leonardo Sismondi., “Bossi—Necrologia”, in The Quarterly Review‎, volume 72, number 144, page 333:

     People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Major Major Major Major”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 90:

     From General Peckem's office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as "Procrastination is the Thief of Time and "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness."

   • 1992 September 13, William Grimes, “The Ridiculous Vision of Mark Leyner”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Traditional narratives he found too prolix and discursive. "There's always 14 pages describing a lawn that you skip over," he says.

   • 2008, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis (lyrics and music), “We Call Upon The Author”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

     Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!

2. (obsolete) Long; having great length.

派生語

• prolixity

関連する語

• lax

動詞

prolix (third-person singular simple present prolixes, present participle prolixing, simple past and past participle prolixed)

1. (rare) To be tediously lengthy.

Further reading

• “prolix”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prolix”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “prolix, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.