WORDY (wordier, wordiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: wordier    , wordiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wordy mean? 

• WORDY (adjective)
  The adjective WORDY has 1 sense:

1. using or containing too many words

  Familiarity information: WORDY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORDY (adjective)

Comparative: wordier   
Superlative: wordiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using or containing too many words

Synonyms:

long-winded; tedious; verbose; windy; wordy

Context example:

proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes

Similar:

prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)

Derivation:

wordiness (boring verbosity)

 Context examples 

White Fang, listening to the wordy war and watching the angry gestures, knew that his act was justified.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In fact, he had a comfortable feeling that he was vastly superior to these wordy maniacs of the working class.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All day amid that incessant and mysterious menace our two Professors watched every bird upon the wing, and every shrub upon the bank, with many a sharp wordy contention, when the snarl of Summerlee came quick upon the deep growl of Challenger, but with no more sense of danger and no more reference to drum-beating Indians than if they were seated together in the smoking-room of the Royal Society's Club in St. James's Street.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ruth sat near him in the stern, while the three young fellows lounged amidships, deep in a wordy wrangle over "frat" affairs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"That is my only criticism in the large way. I followed the story, but there seemed so much else. It is too wordy. You clog the action by introducing so much extraneous material."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the knot of wordy socialists and working-class philosophers that held forth in the City Hall Park on warm afternoons that was responsible for the great discovery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)