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verbiage - 8 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | verbiage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition, wordiness |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, loquacity, redundancy, verbosity, expansiveness, floridity, long-windedness, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, tautology |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
| Main Entry: | circumlocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect speech |
| Synonyms: | euphemism, roundabout, verbiage, wordiness, beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness, discursiveness, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, tautology, verbal evasion, verbality |
| Antonyms: | conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
| Synonyms: | delivery, elocution, eloquence, expression, fluency, gift of gab*, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbiage, vocabulary, wording, command of language, enunciation, phrasing, verbalism, wordage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phrase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of words; way of speaking |
| Synonyms: | byword, catchphrase, catchword, diction, expression, idiom, locution, maxim, motto, parlance, phraseology, remark, saying, shibboleth, slogan, tag, terminology, utterance, verbiage, watchword, wording, phrasing, styling, verbalism, wordage |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
| Synonyms: | banality, bromide*, buzzword, cliché, commonplace, evenness, inanity, monotony, motto, proverb, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, truism, verbiage, boiler plate, chestnut*, corn*, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, insipidity, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, saw, trite remark, triteness, triviality, vapidity |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verbosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
| Synonyms: | garrulous, loquacity, verbiage, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | circumlocution, copiousness, diffusion, garrulity, loquacity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, verbiage, diffuseness, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, tautology, verboseness, windiness |
| Antonyms: | directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | profuseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | verbiage, wordiness, grandiloquence, prolixity |
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