wordy
/ˈwəːdi
/adjective (wordier, wordiest)
1Using or expressed in rather too many words: a wordy and repetitive account...
- Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence.
- I feel that most stories set in the middle ages tend to fall back on the archaic language that makes it more difficult to understand and rather overly wordy - the great exception to this being Ella Enchanted, which is a fabulous book.
- A focus on texts and their position in all kinds of Italian secular vocal music of the time leads to a rather wordy book not very easy to follow in its layout, especially when a music example precedes its reference.
Synonyms
long-winded, verbose, prolix, full of verbiage, lengthy, protracted, long-drawn-out, diffuse, discursive, rambling, digressive, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, repetitious, tautological, tortuous;
loquacious, garrulous, voluble
informal windy, talky
British informal waffly
rare pleonastic, logorrhoeic, ambagious
2 archaic Consisting of words: on the publication of Worcester’s dictionary, a wordy war arose...
- The sessions including the zero hour and introduction of bills passed off without scuffles or a wordy war.
- A week into the invasion at the time of writing, it already seems such an excessively wordy war.
- It was hard to tell which regiment would come off the victor in this wordy battle.
Derivatives
wordily
- And the remarkable thing about her wordily expressed attitude to the Church's flawed but essentially positive foray into feminist discourse is that she sees the Vatican's pronouncements as irrelevant anyway.
- Tolerance, knowledge, simplicity, and love are wordily and exhaustively extolled and proved to be superior to their opposites - sometimes by Pemberton, other times by Sarah, and sometimes by famous Viennese philosophers.
- In a short bit I'll be heading out to a similar format for the wordily titled East Coast North American Single Speed Championship of the Universe.
wordiness
/ noun ...- I'm gonna start sticking the odd photo up in this blog, just to break up the wordiness and give the three people who read it something else to look at.
- If you don't mind the inherent wordiness and static nature of an adapted stage play - or even if you do - there's certainly a lot to like here.
- In terms of style, Lyons occasionally tends to wordiness.
Origin
Old English wordig (see word, -y1).