wordy
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
If you describe a person's speech or something that they write as wordy, you disapprove of the fact that they use too many words, especially words which are very long, formal, or literary.
The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
= verbose
ADJ [disapproval]