wordy

Word family

CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDusing too many words 話太多的，冗長的 SYN verbose

a wordy explanation

冗長的解釋

—wordiness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

wordy• They make writing stale and wordy.• Explain the difference between the passive and active voice and wordy and concise word use as objectively as possible.• It is far too wordy and vague, but here is my summary, for what it is worth.• They tried writing and rewriting, each time coming up with dull and wordy expressions.• In this way, one can use a narrative text which would otherwise be too wordy for normal choral usage.• Tired Phrases Signs: Clusters of overused and wordy phrases.• First, you notice that awkward paragraph, wordy sentence, or jargon each time you write.• Her wordy text clearly aims for the sublime, but it ends up collapsing into the ridiculous.

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