Words and phrases that have a meaning related to wordy: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
verbose, digressive, longwinded, prolix, pithy, pedantic, sententious, glib, expository, winded, ponderous, abstruse, punchy, obtuse, succinct, epigrammatic, florid, repetitious, discursive, polysyllabic, pretentious, tricksy, snappy, cadenced, talky, declarative sentence, slangy, unquotable, overlong, cryptic, aphoristic, ungrammatical, didactic, declamatory, convoluted, witty, flowery, melodramatic, tedious, waffly, descriptive, mot juste, uninformative, eloquent, gnomic, catchy, prefatory, trite, legalese, stagey, grandiloquent, legalistic, stilted, decipherable, quippy, ineloquent, polemical, inarticulate, simplistic, orotund, inelegant, hyperbolic, latinate, terser, exclamatory, jokey, overfamiliar, infelicitous, hackneyed, confusing, bombastic, erudite, epistolary, unpoetic, clunky, overdetermined, lawyerly, essayistic, intelligible, repetitive, preachy, stagy, contentless, unintelligible, explanatory, jejune, hortatory, prosaic, unenlightening, banal, recondite, twee, nuanced, indecipherable, comprehensible, tiresome, droll, toneless, overwrought, nabokovian, straightforward, concise, acrimonious, terse, lengthy, laconic, worded, informative, lengthier, formulaic, inconclusive, laudatory
Appears in the definition of:
ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, periphrastic, talkativeness
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Also try:long-winded, redundant, windy
— Nouns for wordy: warfare, war, battle, phrases, battles, sentences, style, strife, duel, way, expressions, more...
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