| 单词 | verbosity |
| 释义 | verbosity (once / 29999 pages) n Verbosity is a quality possessed by people who talk a lot while saying very little at all. The root verb — also seen in verbal — is a clue this word has to do with talking. Specifically, verbosity is the quality of gabbing and blabbing at length. That might sound like a talent, and it sort of is, but usually the words are a bit empty. You could be accused of verbosity if you like to exaggerate or wax poetic. Most of the time, verbosity is empty talk — a whole lot of nothing dressed up in too many words. WORD FAMILYverbosity: verbosities+/verbose: verbosely, verboseness, verbosity USAGE EXAMPLESFortunately, though, the final veto on verbosity is held by readers, who can exercise it simply by stopping in midsentence. Washington Times(Oct 14, 2016) Lawson has shiny tussled hair and a quick verbosity, and he tends to offer thoughts with what might be called the opposite of circumspection. Los Angeles Times(Aug 12, 2016) As for his verbosity before the footbridge kiss, it returned three years later when he proposed. New York Times(Aug 04, 2016) n an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper verboseness terseness a neatly short and concise expressive style verbalism, verbiage overabundance of words long-windedness, prolixity, prolixness, windiness, wordinessboring verbosity ambage, circumlocution, periphrasisa style that involves indirect ways of expressing things repetitiousness, repetitivenessverboseness resulting from excessive repetitions pleonasmusing more words than necessary flatulence, turgidity, turgidnesspompously embellished language redundancyrepetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission tautologyuseless repetition expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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