- 1冗長的、囉嗦的、用字太多的
Wordy means using more words than the idea needs. It is a criticism — a gentle one, but still a criticism. If a teacher 'a bit wordy' on your essay, they are not saying it is wrong or badly spelled; they are saying you took three sentences to say what one sentence could say.
It describes writing and speech, not people's vocabulary: a wordy email, a wordy report, a wordy explanation, wordy instructions. You can stretch it to a person — 'he's very wordy' — but the more usual way is to describe what they produced.
The cure is cutting. 'Due to the fact that' → 'because'. 'At this point in time' → 'now'. English readers, especially in business and academic writing, treat shortness as a kindness, so 'wordy' is a real fault in English classes and offices in a way it may not be everywhere.
A useful nearby word is 'verbose' — the same idea, but formal and harsher. 'Long-winded' is the spoken cousin, used mostly for people who talk too long. 'Wordy' sits comfortably between them, and is the one you can safely use in class.
One more small thing: 'wordy' can also just mean 'containing a lot of words' with no complaint at all — 'a wordy slide' can simply mean the slide is packed with text. Context tells you which you're getting, but the critical meaning is far more common.
組成word + -y, the ending that means 'full of' or 'like': salty, dirty, sleepy, noisy. So wordy = 'full of words'. It is genuinely old — Old English wordiġ, not a modern invention.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wordyadj/ˈwɝdi/
- 1
Using an excessive number of words.
- The story was long and very wordy.
- And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
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