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DIFFUSE

diffuse - a 
spread out; not concentrated in one place; "a large diffuse organization" 
lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel" 

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Synonyms

circuitous, circumlocutory, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

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Examples

The placenta is diffuse, not cotyledonary.

Indeed his work, written in a diffuse and inelegant style, passed almost unnoticed.

Of these volumes, he adds, one is very diffuse, but the other short and concise.

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Etymology

1520s (transitive), "to pour out and spread, cause to flow and spread;" 1650s (intransitive), "spread abroad, scatter in all directions;" from Latin diffusus, past participle of diffundere "to pour out or away," from dis- "apart, in every direction" (see dis-) + fundere "to pour" (from nasalized form of PIE root *gheu- "to pour"). Related: Diffused; diffusing.

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