verbiage
verbiage
Definition
ver·bi·age (vʉr′bē ij′)
noun
- an excess of words beyond those needed to express concisely what is meant; wordiness
- style of expression; diction
Etymology: Fr < OFr verbier, to speak, chatter < verbe: see verb
verbiage
Synonyms
verbiage
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: As to specific verbiage used by traditionalists, I don't have time at the moment to look up samples from Church history.
Adjective modifier
- unnecessary: No one is quarreling with the maxim to prune all unnecessary verbiage.
- much: Here are extracts from their Journal and from Musical Opinion of that year, heavily pruned of much verbiage of the period.
- more: Most people do not think about this seriously enough and believe that more verbiage is better than less - the opposite is the case.
- excessive: The material contained in this book is narrow, repetitive, and padded out with excessive verbiage.
- empty: Read some of the pages I have on my site, instead of giving me all this empty verbiage.
- legal: Let's have less of your dense, abstruse legal verbiage.
Browse dictionary entries near verbiage
- verbena
- verbatim
- verbally
- verbalize
- verbalist
- verbalism
- verbal noun
- verbal
- verb
- veratrum
- verbid
- verbify
- verbigeration
- verbose
- verbosely
- verbosity
- verboten
- verbum sat sapienti (est)
- Vercingetorix
- verdant
