Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or consisting of words; verbal.
- adjective Tending to use, using, or expressed in more words than are necessary to convey meaning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to the use of many words; verbose.
- Full of words; wordish.
- Consisting of words; verbal.
- An obsolete Scotch form of
worthy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal.
- adjective Using many words; verbose.
- adjective Containing many words; full of words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Using an excessive number of words.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using or containing too many words
Etymologies
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Examples
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Last month, Arizona for Responsible Lenders filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court asking Secretary of State Jan Brewer to clarify what it called wordy language in multi-pronged proposition.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2008
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Still, between the baby-language of the modern media and the blistering, elementary severity and clarity of Beckett, there does lie a place where being wordy is surely just about ok.
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I really like "no rest for the wordy", is it yours or a commonly used?
Howard Hughes loves lava crabs and glacier penguins. greygirlbeast 2010
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Still, between the baby-language of the modern media and the blistering, elementary severity and clarity of Beckett, there does lie a place where being wordy is surely just about ok.
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I really like "no rest for the wordy", is it yours or a commonly used?
Howard Hughes loves lava crabs and glacier penguins. greygirlbeast 2010
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For me personally, I'm not interested in wordy writing or hyper-critical articles and reviews.
Ken's Nostalgic Indiana Jones Adventure - Part 1! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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"Ah, you are a talking man -- what I call a wordy man.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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"Ah, you are a talking man -- what I call a wordy man.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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I have a tendency to write in what might be called a wordy style, so forcing myself to actually watch the word counts forced me to really think about the words that were important and those that were extraneous.
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Sometimes, we think, there is too much description, the besetting sin of modern verse, which has substituted what should be called wordy-painting for the old art of painting in a single word.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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