英语词汇“verbiage”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verbiage

/ˈvəːbɪɪdʒ

noun [mass noun]

1Excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing: the basic idea here, despite all the verbiage, is simple there is plenty of irrelevant verbiage...

Corruption and tyranny both hide in irrelevant public verbiage.
Dwarfed by the scope of the bill's radical changes, this bit of verbiage flew under the public's radar screen.
Smiley says her first letters to the Times were edited heavily, with excess verbiage getting the knife.

Synonyms

verbosity, verboseness, padding, wordiness, prolixity, prolixness, superfluity, redundancy, long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, discursiveness, expansiveness, digressiveness, convolution, circumlocution, circuitousness, rambling, wandering, meandering

British informal waffle, waffling, wittering, flannel

rare logorrhoea

2US The way in which something is expressed; wording or diction: we need to look at how the rule should be applied, based on the verbiage...

A modern cinematic chronicle of baseball's integration has to be bolder about using authentic verbiage.
The verbiage on the site is also key to the design.
In that same tradition Walsh provides them with some witty, juicy verbiage.

Usage

The form verbage, formed without the i on the pattern of words such as garbage, is sometimes used, but this is generally regarded as a mistake. Around five per cent of citations in the Oxford English Corpus are for this incorrect spelling.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, from obsolete verbeier 'to chatter', from verbe 'word' (see verb).

单词	verbiage
释义	verbiage /ˈvəːbɪɪdʒ / noun [mass noun] 1Excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing: the basic idea here, despite all the verbiage, is simple there is plenty of irrelevant verbiage... Corruption and tyranny both hide in irrelevant public verbiage. Dwarfed by the scope of the bill's radical changes, this bit of verbiage flew under the public's radar screen. Smiley says her first letters to the Times were edited heavily, with excess verbiage getting the knife. Synonyms verbosity, verboseness, padding, wordiness, prolixity, prolixness, superfluity, redundancy, long-windedness, lengthiness, protractedness, discursiveness, expansiveness, digressiveness, convolution, circumlocution, circuitousness, rambling, wandering, meandering British informal waffle, waffling, wittering, flannel rare logorrhoea 2US The way in which something is expressed; wording or diction: we need to look at how the rule should be applied, based on the verbiage... A modern cinematic chronicle of baseball's integration has to be bolder about using authentic verbiage. The verbiage on the site is also key to the design. In that same tradition Walsh provides them with some witty, juicy verbiage. Usage The form verbage, formed without the i on the pattern of words such as garbage, is sometimes used, but this is generally regarded as a mistake. Around five per cent of citations in the Oxford English Corpus are for this incorrect spelling. Origin Early 18th century: from French, from obsolete verbeier 'to chatter', from verbe 'word' (see verb).
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