wordy in English
a wordy and repetitive account
Use "wordy" in a sentence
1. Don't be too wordy, of course.
2. a wordy and repetitive essay.
3. They make writing stale and wordy.
4. The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
5. 6 The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
6. Tired Phrases Signs: Clusters of overused and wordy phrases.
7. Remember, woman wordy is some kind of love.
8. His wordy and empty speech was a frost.
9. The wordy lord left his sword on the world.
10. I thought the professor's speech was a little wordy.
11. This let me believe I am a wordy person.
12. In the Affirmative is wordy for yes
13. The essay is too wordy,[Sentencedict.com] you'd better condense it.
14. The essay is too wordy, you'd better condense it.
15. A wordy phrase or sentence that has little meaning.
16. This article is too wordy, it needs revision.
17. Newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials.
18. Our prayers should be thoughtful and reverential, not wordy.
19. The article is good in content, only it's a bit wordy.
20. Please find Attached is wordy jargon at its worst
21. Wordy stuff confuses me, and it's not the same.
22. Wordy intellect Befools and beguiles, And hang the enchanting rubbish
23. For example, avoid wordy descriptions for command names or messages.
24. How come a viewpoint difference is escalated to such a wordy warfare?
25. They tried writing and rewriting, each time coming up with dull and wordy expressions.
26. Antonyms for Aphoristic include circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy and lengthy
27. Synonyms for Ambagious include verbose, wordy, prolix, garrulous, rambling, talkative, windy, loquacious, diffuse and gabby
28. First, you notice that awkward paragraph, wordy sentence, or jargon each time you write.
29. As usual she gave a reply which was wordy and didn't answer the question.
30. Circumlocution is the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point
31. Synonyms for Alliterative include assonant, echoing, poetic, repetitive, repetitious, verbose, wordy, long-winded, prolix and tautological
32. Her wordy text clearly aims for the sublime, but it ends up collapsing into the ridiculous.
33. In this way, one can use a narrative text which would otherwise be too wordy for normal choral usage.
34. Many prospectuses are very wordy making them unattractive to the casual browser, some are over 8000 words long!
35. Irish writers can sometimes be lured by the treasures of their wordy inheritance into flashy spending, but McBride isn’t just Blarneying
36. But when leaders shape visions that are too wordy, peo-ple edit out all but the most meaningful aspirations.
37. On the other hand, needless repetition, that which is not employed for emphasis, will make the talk wordy and uninteresting.
38. Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: "I found our speech Copious without order, and energetic without rules" (Samuel Johnson)
39. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
40. (Romans 8:26) It does no good to try to impress Jehovah with eloquent, flowery speech or with lengthy, wordy prayers.
41. To characterize something also means to describe it by stating its main qualities: She Characterized the novel as wordy in places but very funny
42. Using Active voice for the majority of your sentences makes your meaning clear for readers, and keeps the sentences from becoming too complicated or wordy
43. Ambagious: 1 adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy “(` Ambagious ' is archaic)” Synonyms: circumlocutious , circumlocutory , periphrastic indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
44. The word means something like "loaded with honors, " but, suspiciously, it comes in the middle of a conversation about wordiness, so it might be a word created to be wordy.
45. Bombast was cotton padding or stuffing in the 1500s. Bombastic evolved as an adjective to describe something (or someone!) that is overly wordy, pompous, or pretentious, but the adjective is most often …
46. Presenter Coach evaluates your pacing, pitch, your use of filler words, informal speech, euphemisms, and culturally sensitive terms, and it detects when you're being overly wordy or are simply reading the text on a slide.
47. Concise adjective brief, short, to the point, compact, summary, compressed, condensed, terse, laconic, succinct, pithy, synoptic, epigrammatic, compendious The text is Concise and informative. lengthy, rambling, long, diffuse, long-winded, wordy, garrulous, discursive, verbose, prolix
48. Ambagious ( adj.) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`Ambagious' is archaic); Synonyms: circumlocutious / circumlocutory / periphrastic
49. Alternatively is an adverb that means on the other hand; one or the other: “You can choose a large bookcase or, Alternatively, you can buy two small ones.” Jul 23 2008 11:38:02 Mr Wordy
50. Concise, succinct, terse all refer to speech or writing that uses few words to say much. Concise usually implies that unnecessary details or verbiage have been eliminated from a more wordy statement: a Concise summary of the speech.