wordy
[ wur-dee ]
/ ˈwɜr di /
adjective, word·i·er, word·i·est.
characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
pertaining to or consisting of words; verbal.
SYNONYMS FOR wordy
1
diffuse,
talkative,
loquacious,
voluble.
Wordy,
prolix,
redundant,
pleonastic all mean using more words than necessary to convey a desired meaning.
Wordy, the broadest and least specific of these terms, may, in addition to indicating an excess of words, suggest a garrulousness or loquaciousness:
a wordy, gossipy account of a simple incident.
Prolix refers to speech or writing extended to great and tedious length with inconsequential details:
a prolix style that tells you more than you need or want to know.
Redundant and
pleonastic both refer to unnecessary repetition of language.
Redundant has also a generalized sense of “excessive” or “no longer needed”:
the dismissal of redundant employees. In describing language, it most often refers to overelaboration through the use of expressions that repeat the sense of other expressions in a passage:
a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious.
Pleonastic, usually a technical term, refers most often to expressions that repeat something that has been said before:
“A true fact” and “a free gift” are pleonastic expressions.
OTHER WORDS FROM wordy
word·i·ly, adverb word·i·ness, nounWords nearby wordy
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British Dictionary definitions for wordy
wordy
/ (ˈwɜːdɪ) /
adjective wordier or wordiest
using, inclined to use, or containing an excess of words
a wordy writer; a wordy document
of the nature of or relating to words; verbal