wordy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ˈwɝdi/
Definition of wordy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).
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