wordiness
71redundant, superfluous, prolix — These words have a common meaning of too much, more than is required or needed, excessive : The speaker s response to the question was redundant (or superfluous or prolix). Superfluous, derived from Latin terms meaning overflow, is applicable to… …
72refer, refer back — Refer has much the same meaning as ALLUDE. Specifically it means to direct one s thoughts or attention to something else: Please refer to Chapter 10 for a further explanation of this topic. The prisoner twice referred to his former employer… …
73to — In addition to its primary meaning of in the direction of, to is used before a verb to indicate an infinitive (to walk, to eat). In this usage, it may appear in place of the infinitive: You may eat now if you want to (eat). To is unnecessarily… …
74logorrhea — Synonyms and related words: abundance, amplitude, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, effusion, effusiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flow of words, fluency, flux of words, formlessness,… …
75prolixity — Synonyms and related words: bedizenment, big mouth, boringness, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, dullness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat,… …
76rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …
77tautology — Synonyms and related words: abundance, amplitude, battology, bedizenment, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion,… …
78verbiage — Synonyms and related words: choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom …
79verbosity — Synonyms and related words: bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding,… …
80brevity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. concision, briefness, shortness, transientness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. shortness, conciseness, concision, briefness, terseness, pointedness, pithiness, compression, succinctness, crispness,… …
