wordy | Definition of wordy

Synonyms and Antonyms of wordy

1 using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea

her writing style is far too wordy for my tastes

Synonyms of wordy

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy

Words Related to wordy

chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble

redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated

bombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin)

Near Antonyms of wordy

aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious

compendious, summary

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy

Antonyms of wordy

compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse

2 of or relating to words or language

the neighborhood dispute escalated into a wordy war conducted through angry letters to the editor in the local paper

Synonyms of wordy

lexical, linguistic (also linguistical), rhetorical (also rhetoric), verbal, vocabular

Words Related to wordy

communicative, conversational

Antonyms of wordy

nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal