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wordy

adj
/ˈwɝdi/US

Etymology

From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).

  1. inherited from wordiġ — “wordy, verbose”
  2. inherited from wordy

Definitions

  1. Using an excessive number of words.

    • The story was long and very wordy.
    • And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA