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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
prolix is an adjective meaning "tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length". It carries one recorded sense.
tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
“editing a prolix manuscript”
“a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prolix come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.