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wordyadjective using or containing more words than necessary to express an ideaher writing style is far too wordy for my tastes circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, volubleperiphrasticredundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousembellished, embroidered, exaggeratedbombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin(also hifalutin) compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse brief, shortaphoristic, epigrammatic, sententiouscompendious, summaryabbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortenedabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy of or relating to words or languagethe neighborhood dispute escalated into a wordy war conducted through angry letters to the editor in the local paper wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse mean using more words than necessary to express thought.wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulity.a wordy speech verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision.the verbose position papers prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details.habitually transformed brief anecdotes into prolix sagas diffuse stresses lack of compactness and pointedness of style.diffuse memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories before the 12th century |