wordily
- adverb
- /ˈwɜrdɪli/
:
palabrósamente
- He explained his position wordily, making the meeting much longer than expected.
Examples
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The instructions were written wordily and could have been much simpler.
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The report was written wordily and was hard to read.
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She tends to respond wordily to even the simplest questions.
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He explained the concept wordily.
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During the lecture, the professor spoke wordily, exhausting the attention of his students.
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She often writes wordily, filling her essays with unnecessary details.
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His response was so wordily constructed that it lost the main point he was trying to make.
Synonyms
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For a long time and with too many details
To speak or write using too many words so people lose interest
In a way that uses more words than needed
Using more words than needed makes speech or writing feel long
In a friendly way that shows someone enjoys speaking a lot
To speak a lot and fill silences with words
In a showy, proud way using big, fancy words
In a long, fancy way that sounds too important when speaking or writing
To speak or write in a showy, formal way using fancy words
Antonyms
How Wordy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wordily is built from the simple adjective wordy ('full of words') plus the adverb ending -ly, so it means 'in a wordy way' or 'using too many words'.