Entry Word: wordy

Function: adjective

Meaning: using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea <your paper is two pages too long—it doesn't need to be so wordy>

Synonyms circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy

Related Words chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble; redundant, repetitious, tautological; embellished, embroidered, exaggerated; bombastic, grandiloquent, highfalutin

Near Antonyms brief, short; aphoristic, epigrammatic, sententious; compendious, summary; abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened; abrupt, blunt, brusque, curt, laconic, snippy

Antonyms compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse