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voluble collapse: marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations"

boring collapse: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum; so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

expletive collapse: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line

prolix collapse: 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"

rhetorical collapse: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"; of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

flowery collapse: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton; of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine"

inflated collapse: expanded by (or as if by) gas or air; "an inflated balloon"

endless collapse: having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an endless chain"; infinitely great in number; "endless waves"; tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"

extended collapse: beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"; fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"

ponderous collapse: having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"; labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"

long collapse: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"; primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"; primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"; (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; " the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"; holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"; involving substantial risk; "long odds"; of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"; for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"; for an extended distance

windy collapse: resembling the wind in speed,force, or variability; "a windy dash home"

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