| 单词 | wordy |
| 释义 | wordy I. 1. < a wordy and insolent braggart — Sir Walter Scott > < finding wordy fault with the conditions under which he lives — Agnes Repplier > 2. < wordy war > Synonyms: < the newspapers of the day … printed long wordy editorials — Marjory S. Douglas > < proceedings, which were long and disorderly, were delayed by wordy disputes — F.H.Underhill > < a senile and wordy character > verbose suggests overabundance of words as a literary or rhetorical fault < slow, verbose, and ineffective instructional methods — R.E.De Kieffer > < not diffuse, but they are verbose in the exact sense of that term; they are too luxurious in words — H.S.Canby > prolix implies so much attention to minute detail as to extend the matter beyond all due bounds, strongly implying tediousness < his style is … excessively long-winded and prolix — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < the style is forceful, repetitive and prolix — Cyril Connolly > diffuse implies lack of compactness and sense of point, suggesting a wordy ranging over a subject < this is a sprawling, formless, diffuse, and unselective book — Orville Prescott > < fear … that I was getting too diffuse; but now I am glad that I went into detail from the first — Bram Stoker > redundant applies to something superfluous, to repetitious and unnecessary words or phrases, or to a speaker or writer whose style is marked by them, usually habitually < she had been, like nearly all very young writers, superfluous of phrase, redundant — Rose Macaulay > < a wordy, redundant, cliché-ridden style > < a most redundant after-dinner speaker > II. chiefly Scotland variant of worthy |
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