verbiage | Definition of verbiage

Synonyms and Antonyms of verbiage

1 the use of too many words to express an idea

teachers loathe the verbiage that students resort to in order to pad a paper

Synonyms of verbiage

circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness, logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy, verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

Words Related to verbiage

circuitousness, circularity, digressiveness

pleonasm, tautology

reiteration, repetition, repetitiousness, repetitiveness

embellishment, embroidering, exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement

Near Antonyms of verbiage

brevity, briefness, compactness, conciseness, concision, crispness, pithiness, succinctness, terseness

2 language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere

the pretentious verbiage that one finds in the reviews of self-important art critics

Synonyms of verbiage

bombast, fustian, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, rhetoric, wind

Words Related to verbiage

claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsense

affectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousness

garrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness

3 the way in which something is put into words

as per the standard verbiage of military reports, the assault was launched at "0700 hours"

Synonyms of verbiage

diction, language, phraseology, phrasing, wording

Words Related to verbiage

expression, formulation, locution

enunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice