Definition of wordy in English:

wordy

adjectivewordiest, wordier ˈwəːdiˈwərdi

1Using or expressed in rather too many words.
啰嗦的；冗长的
a wordy and repetitive account
一篇冗长且重复的报告。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy.
- I can see why it's been called wordy, but I don't mind a bit of repetition as long as they say it funny, and they did.
- The play suffers from a wordy and lengthy first act which is, to my mind, unavoidably necessary in order to establish the characters.
- No matter how wordy the material he begins with, this Russian-born director's work always emphasizes experiencing the story viscerally, through the senses.
- By this point, our interactions consisted largely of lengthy letters exchanged from my college typewriter to her secretarial bay word processor - long, wordy journals of what we each were doing.
- Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence.
- You attempt to cover over lifeless language with wonderfully wordy witticisms of the repetitive variety.
- As the rather wordy title suggests, it was to be a weekend of exploration, with visual displays and talks complementing the performances in Dublin's National Concert Hall.
- Having been so wordy, I am now lost for the right words to sum up how this whole thing has made me feel.
- The book is wordy, and repetition of various concepts by different contributors and heaviness on quotations make it slow reading.
- 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.
- Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to.
- Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries.
- Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted.
- But we are left now asking ourselves what the real reason is for such a lengthy and wordy Supplementary Order Paper.
- Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script.
- Repetition is neither wordy nor inefficient; it improves clarity, understanding, and remembrance of the rules.
- There are more than 40 deleted scenes, and though some are about 1/10 the length of Smith's wordy intros, most are fun to watch and boast full production quality.
- There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench.
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
2archaic Consisting of words.
〈古〉文字的；由单词组成的
on the publication of Worcester's dictionary, a wordy war arose
伍斯特氏词典一出版，一场文字战就爆发了。
Example sentencesExamples
- A week into the invasion at the time of writing, it already seems such an excessively wordy war.
- The sessions including the zero hour and introduction of bills passed off without scuffles or a wordy war.
- It was hard to tell which regiment would come off the victor in this wordy battle.

Derivatives

wordily

adverb ˈwəːdɪliˈwərdəli

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.
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.

wordiness

noun ˈwəːdɪnəsˈwərdinəs

One more thing has changed in headlines, apart from type size and wordiness: the language itself, the vocabulary.
Example sentencesExamples
- Unfortunately, the serious subject matter is often jeopardized by incessant wordiness.
- In terms of style, Lyons occasionally tends to wordiness.
- 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.
- 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.

Origin

Old English wordig (see word, -y¹).

Rhymes

birdie, curdy, hurdy-gurdy, nerdy, sturdy, vinho verde

Definition of wordy in US English:

wordy

adjectiveˈwərdiˈwərdē

1Using or expressed in too many words.
啰嗦的；冗长的
a wordy and repetitive account
一篇冗长且重复的报告。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script.
- No matter how wordy the material he begins with, this Russian-born director's work always emphasizes experiencing the story viscerally, through the senses.
- But we are left now asking ourselves what the real reason is for such a lengthy and wordy Supplementary Order Paper.
- As the rather wordy title suggests, it was to be a weekend of exploration, with visual displays and talks complementing the performances in Dublin's National Concert Hall.
- Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to.
- I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy.
- You attempt to cover over lifeless language with wonderfully wordy witticisms of the repetitive variety.
- The book is wordy, and repetition of various concepts by different contributors and heaviness on quotations make it slow reading.
- There are more than 40 deleted scenes, and though some are about 1/10 the length of Smith's wordy intros, most are fun to watch and boast full production quality.
- Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence.
- Repetition is neither wordy nor inefficient; it improves clarity, understanding, and remembrance of the rules.
- There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench.
- By this point, our interactions consisted largely of lengthy letters exchanged from my college typewriter to her secretarial bay word processor - long, wordy journals of what we each were doing.
- Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries.
- The play suffers from a wordy and lengthy first act which is, to my mind, unavoidably necessary in order to establish the characters.
- I can see why it's been called wordy, but I don't mind a bit of repetition as long as they say it funny, and they did.
- 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.
- Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted.
- Having been so wordy, I am now lost for the right words to sum up how this whole thing has made me feel.
Synonyms
long-winded, verbose, prolix, full of verbiage, lengthy, protracted, long-drawn-out, diffuse, discursive, rambling, digressive, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, repetitious, tautological, tortuous
1. 1.1archaic Consisting of words.
  〈古〉文字的；由单词组成的
  on the publication of Worcester's dictionary, a wordy war arose
  伍斯特氏词典一出版，一场文字战就爆发了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  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.

Origin

Old English wordig (see word, -y).

词汇	wordy
释义	Definition of wordy in English: wordy adjectivewordiest, wordier ˈwəːdiˈwərdi 1Using or expressed in rather too many words. 啰嗦的；冗长的 a wordy and repetitive account 一篇冗长且重复的报告。 Example sentencesExamples I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy. I can see why it's been called wordy, but I don't mind a bit of repetition as long as they say it funny, and they did. The play suffers from a wordy and lengthy first act which is, to my mind, unavoidably necessary in order to establish the characters. No matter how wordy the material he begins with, this Russian-born director's work always emphasizes experiencing the story viscerally, through the senses. By this point, our interactions consisted largely of lengthy letters exchanged from my college typewriter to her secretarial bay word processor - long, wordy journals of what we each were doing. Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence. You attempt to cover over lifeless language with wonderfully wordy witticisms of the repetitive variety. As the rather wordy title suggests, it was to be a weekend of exploration, with visual displays and talks complementing the performances in Dublin's National Concert Hall. Having been so wordy, I am now lost for the right words to sum up how this whole thing has made me feel. The book is wordy, and repetition of various concepts by different contributors and heaviness on quotations make it slow reading. 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. Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to. Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries. Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted. But we are left now asking ourselves what the real reason is for such a lengthy and wordy Supplementary Order Paper. Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script. Repetition is neither wordy nor inefficient; it improves clarity, understanding, and remembrance of the rules. There are more than 40 deleted scenes, and though some are about 1/10 the length of Smith's wordy intros, most are fun to watch and boast full production quality. There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench. 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 2archaic Consisting of words. 〈古〉文字的；由单词组成的 on the publication of Worcester's dictionary, a wordy war arose 伍斯特氏词典一出版，一场文字战就爆发了。 Example sentencesExamples A week into the invasion at the time of writing, it already seems such an excessively wordy war. The sessions including the zero hour and introduction of bills passed off without scuffles or a wordy war. It was hard to tell which regiment would come off the victor in this wordy battle. Derivatives wordily adverb ˈwəːdɪliˈwərdəli 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. Example sentencesExamples 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. wordiness noun ˈwəːdɪnəsˈwərdinəs One more thing has changed in headlines, apart from type size and wordiness: the language itself, the vocabulary. Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately, the serious subject matter is often jeopardized by incessant wordiness. In terms of style, Lyons occasionally tends to wordiness. 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. 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. Origin Old English wordig (see word, -y¹). Rhymes birdie, curdy, hurdy-gurdy, nerdy, sturdy, vinho verde Definition of wordy in US English: wordy adjectiveˈwərdiˈwərdē 1Using or expressed in too many words. 啰嗦的；冗长的 a wordy and repetitive account 一篇冗长且重复的报告。 Example sentencesExamples Their speeches are wordy and repetitive, variations on some theme, or simple reiterations for incantatory effect, always mesmerizing even when you merely read the lines to yourself in the script. No matter how wordy the material he begins with, this Russian-born director's work always emphasizes experiencing the story viscerally, through the senses. But we are left now asking ourselves what the real reason is for such a lengthy and wordy Supplementary Order Paper. As the rather wordy title suggests, it was to be a weekend of exploration, with visual displays and talks complementing the performances in Dublin's National Concert Hall. Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to. I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy. You attempt to cover over lifeless language with wonderfully wordy witticisms of the repetitive variety. The book is wordy, and repetition of various concepts by different contributors and heaviness on quotations make it slow reading. There are more than 40 deleted scenes, and though some are about 1/10 the length of Smith's wordy intros, most are fun to watch and boast full production quality. Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence. Repetition is neither wordy nor inefficient; it improves clarity, understanding, and remembrance of the rules. There are short, clean-cut, crisp sentences with none of the wordy, long-windedness of one who has spent long years on the Bench. By this point, our interactions consisted largely of lengthy letters exchanged from my college typewriter to her secretarial bay word processor - long, wordy journals of what we each were doing. Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries. The play suffers from a wordy and lengthy first act which is, to my mind, unavoidably necessary in order to establish the characters. I can see why it's been called wordy, but I don't mind a bit of repetition as long as they say it funny, and they did. 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. Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted. Having been so wordy, I am now lost for the right words to sum up how this whole thing has made me feel. Synonyms long-winded, verbose, prolix, full of verbiage, lengthy, protracted, long-drawn-out, diffuse, discursive, rambling, digressive, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, repetitious, tautological, tortuous 1.1archaic Consisting of words. 〈古〉文字的；由单词组成的 on the publication of Worcester's dictionary, a wordy war arose 伍斯特氏词典一出版，一场文字战就爆发了。 Example sentencesExamples 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. Origin Old English wordig (see word, -y).
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