Synonyms for wordiness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wur-dee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜr di |
Top 10 synonyms for wordiness
Définition of wordiness
Origin :- Old English wordig "verbose;" see word (n.) + -y (2).
- noun verbosity
- noun excessive in language
- Thence much of the wordiness of our written, if not spoken, composition.
- Extract from : « An Outline of English Speech-craft » by William Barnes
- And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.
- Extract from : « Discipline » by Charles Kingsley
- Often simply redundant, used from a mere habit of wordiness.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Style » by William Strunk
- Boys dislike fussiness, and wordiness, and beating about the bush.
- Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
- McGregor was so irritated by what he took to be the wordiness of the man that he could not restrain himself.
- Extract from : « Marching Men » by Sherwood Anderson
- Here is a writer who began literature with a sense of words, and who is declining into a mere sense of wordiness.
- Extract from : « The Art of Letters » by Robert Lynd
- An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.
- Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) » by Leslie Stephen
- Verbosity and wordiness denote an excess of words in proportion to the thought.
- Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
- His wordiness hurts tender ears when he so often and apparently without any use repeats the same things.
- Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
Antonyms for wordiness
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