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
Examples of wordy in a Sentence
The original script was too wordy.
her writing style is far too wordy for my tastes
Recent Examples on the WebWhy do these legal tests have to be so wordy and difficult to apply?—Norm Pattis, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024 The 2013 rom-com Can a Song Save Your Life?, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to some acclaim, but it was renamed Begin Again after the festivals and before its wide release because audiences kept messing up the wordy original title.—James Grebey, Vulture, 2 May 2024 The second half is wordy in a different direction, an extended discussion of social realities given highly individualized perspectives.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024 The air is full at present of wordy warfare on the relative merits of unhampered private enterprise and of government planning of economic developments.—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011 See all Example Sentences for wordy
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of wordy was
before the 12th century
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