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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 verbal
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
This is a wordier way of explaining the obvious downstream effects of paying for better players.
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
With Payton and Nix, in particular, part of the rationale was to get some of Payton’s most wordy calls on the band so the coach could give short-hand to Nix, creating a couple of extra seconds for the quarterback to spit out a call that might be15 or 20 words long.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Max went back to its original name, HBO Max, while Paramount+ renamed its wordy Paramount+ With Showtime tier to Paramount+ Premium.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
Anders is also very wordy, and subtitles can only capture maybe 30 percent of it.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
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Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
With Payton and Nix, in particular, part of the rationale was to get some of Payton’s most wordy calls on the band so the coach could give short-hand to Nix, creating a couple of extra seconds for the quarterback to spit out a call that might be15 or 20 words long.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Max went back to its original name, HBO Max, while Paramount+ renamed its wordy Paramount+ With Showtime tier to Paramount+ Premium.
—PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
Anders is also very wordy, and subtitles can only capture maybe 30 percent of it.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordy
Adjective
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Spinella shucks off sentimentality, always showing us Con’s offhand humor and sometimes nervous, defensive rambling.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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Carnivores shouldn’t miss out on Peter upstairs—a rambling dining venue perched on the 24th floor, high above the rooms, that looks like a glitzy Vegas club complete with purple accents and ethereal, Avatar-esque light sculptures.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Rick is tightly scheduled, punctilious to a fault, endowed with verbal wit that gently but firmly shapes and smooths social interactions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Refusing to follow verbal or printed instructions or cooperate with park personnel or security.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Majda said her younger daughter had always been a talkative, playful girl.—
Toqa Ezzidin,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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There’s a social, buzzy quality to this transit that thrives on movement and mental stimulation, which is why people may suddenly feel more talkative, distracted or eager to multitask.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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Klara Liden, an artist working across the registers of the embodied, spatial, and linguistic, remains productively undecided.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Local partners can also prove invaluable, especially when there is a significant linguistic and/or cultural gap.—
Midhat Zwayen,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Even the blandest overtures can whip him into a frantic, pornographic, prolix ecstasy.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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Ronald, who with his shock of white hair and prolix tendencies comes off like a frazzled professor, keeps to a more limited circuit writing out of his house and his office.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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According to the researchers, the findings suggest that infants become sensitive to the communicative and intentional nature of human gaze during the first year of life.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Being multiliterate also implies that the contemporary hypertext and hypermedia user is endowed with a capacity of discernment regarding which semiotic modes can be most efficiently employed to carry a specific communicative load.—
Carmen Daniela Maier,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.—
Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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Those include rhetorical shifts, partnerships with brokerage platforms and teaming up with companies to develop necessary infrastructure.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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“Wordy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordy. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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