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as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
her writing style is far too wordy for my tastes
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as in rhetoric
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
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Recent Examples of wordy
Chatty newsletters, wordy Substacks and quirky TikTok videos and Instagram stories rely more heavily on personality and emotion than do their TV and old-school print counterparts.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
Players said Bieniemy’s plays were wordy and hard to learn, and the results reflected those struggles.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Compared to my last record, this project feels very wordy to me.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
Using the Concise function on highlighted text to boil it down strips out too much personality, while the Friendly function gets too wordy and often misses the sentence's or paragraph's original point.
—PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
Players said Bieniemy’s plays were wordy and hard to learn, and the results reflected those struggles.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Compared to my last record, this project feels very wordy to me.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
Using the Concise function on highlighted text to boil it down strips out too much personality, while the Friendly function gets too wordy and often misses the sentence's or paragraph's original point.
—PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordy
Adjective
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In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2024
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His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing.—
Elizabeth Chuck,
NBC News,
3 Dec. 2024
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In her confusion about so much in her life, the usually talkative Suzy simply stops speaking.—
Chad Jones,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Adrien is very engaged in the moment and is able to switch over and be sociable and talkative.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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Unclear support What form that verbal support would take is unclear.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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Some of them have received some verbal notifications that their jobs are being terminated, but nobody else has gotten an official letter of termination. ...—
Emily Alpert Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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Words, including those of artists themselves—as prolix in their way as critics, curators, and historians—can serve vision but can also deflect from it.—
Barry Schwabsky,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.—
Roberta Smith,
New York Times,
30 May 2024
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But some of the messages she was judged and convicted for are definitely lost in linguistic and cultural translation.—
Seven Graham,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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By focusing on clinical meaning rather than just linguistic similarity, healthcare organizations can unlock the full potential of GenAI for accurate and reliable clinical decision-making.—
Michal Tzuchman Katz MD,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Perhaps a more communicative run-up on expectations or an approach that features more competitive offers to kick off the negotiations could go a long way to keeping the conversations more positive and less combative.—
Paul Dehner Jr.,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Minimalist Style According to Orth, people with yellow auras are typically intellectual, creative, and communicative, with a sunny and optimistic disposition.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Wordy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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