wordy

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝdi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
• Homophone: wordie

wordy (comparative wordier, superlative wordiest)

1. Using an excessive number of words.

   The story was long and very wordy.

   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:

     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.

• verbose
• pleonastic
• sesquipedalian
• See also Thesaurus:verbose
• See also Wikipedia:Wordy

• unwordy
• wordily
• wordiness

• dowry, rowdy

• woordi

From Old English wordiġ; equivalent to word +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwurdiː/, /ˈwoːrdiː/

wordy

1. (rare) wordy

• English: wordy

• “wō̆rdī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.