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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Wow, 'dolichocephalic'- what a grand word, especially when you throw in a spare 'ce' just for good measure.
Imagine holding a conversation with DtheP- either you wait ages while he looks up all these grand words and tries to make a coherent sentence out of them or- God forbid, he doesn't need to look them up so talks like that all the time!
Either way must be seriously boring.
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Well showing off a bit I know what it means but don't feel the need to broadcast it by throwing it and its fellows in to a conversation unless it's really called for in the subject matter under discussion (and believe me that might be a discourse that would lull one to sleep very easily!).
To round this off, let's go for sesquipedalian (literally "a foot and a half long"):
Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words
: Our dinner guest was so sesquipedalian that no one could understand what he said.
(Sound familiar?)
Synonyms: bombastic, grandiloquent, long-winded, florid, prolix