verbiage

1. 1.

   overabundance of words

   Synonymsverbalism

   Broaderverboseness
2. 2.

   the manner in which something is expressed in words

   “use concise military verbiage”

   Synonymswordingdictionphrasingphraseologychoice of words

   Broaderformulation

   Narrowermot justeverbalization

Other forms of verbiage

plural

verbiages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about verbiage

What does verbiage mean?

verbiage means "overabundance of words". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in verbiage?

verbiage has 3 syllables: ver-bi-age. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˈvɝbiɪdʒ/.

What is another word for verbiage?

Close synonyms include verbalism, wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verbiage a common word?

verbiage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.