verbiage
/VUR-bee-ij/nounan excess of words; wordy and unnecessary language
“Strip the verbiage and the memo says one thing: costs are up.”
- Synonyms
- wordiness, prolixity, padding
- Antonyms
- brevity, economy
- Root
- verb- (word)
- Memory hook
- verb (word) + iage: a baggage of words.
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