wordy

English

Etymology

From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word +‎ -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝdi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
• Homophone: wordie

Adjective

wordy (comparative wordier, superlative wordiest)

1. Using an excessive number of words.

   The story was long and very wordy.

   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:

     And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

Synonyms

• verbose
• pleonastic
• sesquipedalian
• See also Thesaurus:verbose
• See also Wikipedia:Wordy

Derived terms

• unwordy
• wordily
• wordiness

Translations

using an excessive number of words

Bulgarian: многосло́вен (bg) (mnogoslóven) Chinese: Mandarin: 囉嗦 / 啰嗦 (zh) (luōsuo), 冗長 / 冗长 (zh) (rǒngcháng) Finnish: monisanainen French: verbeux (fr) German: langatmig (de), weitschweifig (de), wortreich (de) Greek: Ancient: περισσολόγος (perissológos) Irish: foclach, teangach Italian: prolisso (it) Japanese: 饒舌な (jōzetsuna), くどい (ja) (kudoi), くどくどしい (ja) (kudokudoshii) Latin: verbōsus Macedonian: го́ворен (góvoren), многугла́голив (mnoguglágoliv), ре́чев (réčev) Middle English: wordy Polish: przegadany Portuguese: prolixo (pt), palavroso Romanian: prolix (ro) m Russian: многосло́вный (ru) (mnogoslóvnyj) Turkish: sözü uzatan Ukrainian: багатослі́вний (uk) (bahatoslívnyj) Welsh: geiriog

Anagrams

• dowry, rowdy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• woordi

Etymology

From Old English wordiġ; equivalent to word +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwurdiː/, /ˈwoːrdiː/

Adjective

wordy

1. (rare) wordy

Descendants

• English: wordy

References

• “wō̆rdī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.