Definitions for wordy

wordy word·y

Spelling: [wur-dee]
IPA: /ˈwɜr di/

Wordy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in wordy (dorwy).

Definitions for wordy

adjective

  1. characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose:
  2. pertaining to or consisting of words; verbal.

Origin of wordy

before 1100; Middle English; Old English wordig. See word, -y1

Examples for wordy

That would have been too strenuous for him, so he had to sit and weep tears of wordy rain.

But the weakness of the wordy denial was itself almost a confession.

He was not wordy, and he tarried but a moment, yet he explained his paralysis.

The comedies are always long and wordy and generally tedious.

The only effect of this remark was to turn the wordy torrent in his direction.

The Douglas men met the threat with a defiance,—not wordy, but resolute.

What are her image and attributes, when dragged from her wordy lurking-place?

Lin had a wordy war with the treasurer soon after the doors opened.

Now, there was nothing that Red enjoyed any more than a wordy battle.

"It was quite a wordy sarmon that Parson Grant gave us to-night," said Remarkable.

Word Value for wordy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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