verbiage

Noun

Meaning

The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tosh buncombe language deadwood jabberwocky waffle expression phrase talk rhetoric diffusion repetition redundancy lexicon phrasing
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Antonyms

collection brief silence ambiguity nonsense brevity
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Hypernyms

expression formulation

Hyponyms

mot juste

Phrases with the word

full of verbiage

Examples

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valéry

I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet. Larry Hagman

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there. Kathy Reichs

Many principles of economics were hidden in obscure verbiage of previous generations; he reformulated and extended them with crystal clarity in the language of mathematics. Paul Samuelson

But when the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) decided to take — verbiage — issue with his favourite bakery on his St-Léonard home turf, the ranter nonpareil let loose with a blue streak on a YouTube video now burning up the charts. Source: Internet

He focused on humor, wisecracks and tongue-in-cheek verbiage. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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