verbiagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈvɜː.bi.ɪdʒ/us/ˈvɝː.bi.ɪdʒ/formal disapprovinglanguage that is very complicated and contains a lot of unnecessary words:
His explanation was wrapped up in so much technical verbiage that I couldn't understand it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- obscure
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- veiled
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