Crossword-Solution: WORDY 5 letters, 83 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Wordy superl. Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal;
as, a wordy war.
Wordy superl. Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
Wordy superl. Containing many words; full of words.

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WORDY anagram DOWRY, ROWDY

We have 83 clues for the answer “WORDY”

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Like "a majority of," relative to "most" 1 answer
Excessively descriptive 1 answer
Fond of using paragraphs when a sentence will do 1 answer
Definitely not terse. 1 answer
Hardly succinct 1 answer
Hardly terse 1 answer
Inclined to ramble 1 answer
Inefficiently phrased 1 answer
Like an essay in need of editing, maybe 1 answer
Sorely in need of editing 1 answer
Underutilizing the principle of economy of language 1 answer
using too many words 1 answer
Long, in a way 2 answers
Needing editing 2 answers
Circumlocutory 5 answers
Going on and on 8 answers
episodic 9 answers
Bubbling 17 answers
Bubbly 19 answers
Fluent 24 answers
Discursive 24 answers
tautological 29 answers
excrescent 30 answers
plethoric 32 answers
Super-abundant 32 answers
ALL over the place 40 answers
"Epic!" 41 answers
Superfluous 42 answers
gushy 43 answers
Long-winded 43 answers
unleashed 44 answers
Prodigal 44 answers
Needless 44 answers
informational 46 answers
Growing ___ 46 answers
illuminative 46 answers
enlightening 46 answers
Illuminating 47 answers
elucidating 47 answers
divulging 47 answers
educative 47 answers
illumining 47 answers
informatory 47 answers
instructional 47 answers
pedagogical 47 answers
instructive 48 answers
interpretive 48 answers
newsy 48 answers
ANECDOTAL 49 answers
explanatory 49 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WORDY (5)

Misguided princes, why have ye upraised This wordy wrangle? Are ye not ashamed, While the whole land lies striken, thus to voice Your private injuries? Go in, my lord; Go home, my brother, and forebear to make A public scandal of a petty grief.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball--better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest-- laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
All through this little book one detects the signs of a certain probable fact—that a large part of the pupil’s “instruction” consists in cramming him with obscure and wordy “rules” which he does not understand and has no time to understand.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Osric: I had rather have sign'd upon Hugo's crest; He has argued the question mouth to mouth With the wordy lore of the subtle south; Let him or any one of his band Come and argue the question hand to hand.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
Scarce anything fell under his notice but he perceived in it some relation to his work, and chronicled it in the pages of his journal in his always lucid, but sometimes inexact and wordy, style.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with WORDY (3)

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, onc…
Mark Twain
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!
Gilbert Sorrentino Mulligan Stew
He is deaf, and keen to accept, any economical operation, that will correct his situation. He visited the doctor best, and started talking on subject, like the after-effects, and if any threats. The doctor medically checked, and asked him what he expects? He expressed, he wants to be addressed-in words, and not in signs. And how keen he is, to have his ears listening. He wants to listen the echo of, sun-set over that crimson dawn. He is keen to know, the sound of, a blooming …
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 50 times in crossword archives (1966–2025).