粵

冗jung2長coeng4

simp冗长
jung2 coeng4rǒng cháng

English

  1. long and tedious
  2. redundant
  3. superfluous
  4. supernumerary
  5. verbose (of writing)
  6. unnecessarily long; long-winded

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 冇需要地長

Examples

  • 这位老教授的讲座冗长而沉闷。

    The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.

    Tatoeba · slo_oth CC BY

  • 佢講嘢不著邊際,行文亦都同樣咁冗長。

    His speech is empty and his words are long-winded.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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