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.

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