wordy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: word=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

wordy, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]
•  Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.  [1913 Webster]
•  Containing many words; full of words.  [1913 Webster]

  "We need not lavish hours in wordy periods."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wordy, adj. (wordier, wordiest)
1 using or expressed in many or too many words; verbose.
2 consisting of words.

Derivative

wordily adv. wordiness n.

Etymology

OE wordig (as WORD, -Y(1))

THESAURUS

wordy

bombastic, de longue haleine, diffuse, endless, extended, filled out, flatulent, garrulous, glib, highfalutin, inflated, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, padded, prolix, protracted, redundant, rhetorical, spun-out, talkative, tumid, turgid, unrelenting, verbose, voluble, windy

ROGET THESAURUS

wordy

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.