verbose

[ ver-bohs ]
/ vərˈboʊs /
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adjective

characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.

Origin of verbose

1665–75; < Latin verbōsus, equivalent to verb(um) word + -ōsus -ose1

synonym study for verbose

See bombastic.

OTHER WORDS FROM verbose

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH verbose

verbal verbose

Words nearby verbose

verbicide, verbid, verbify, verbigeration, verbing, verbose, verbosity, verboten, verbum sap, vercelli, vercelli book

Words related to verboseness

diffusion, rhetoric, redundancy, garrulity, pleonasm, copiousness, verbosity, circumlocution, diffuseness, verbiage, loquacity, prolixity, repetition, logorrhea, tautology, loquaciousness, redundance, wordage

British Dictionary definitions for verboseness

verbose
/ (vɜːˈbəʊs) /

adjective

using or containing an excess of words, so as to be pedantic or boring; prolix

Derived forms of verbose

verbosely, adverb verbosity (vɜːˈbɒsɪtɪ) or verboseness, noun

Word Origin for verbose

C17: from Latin verbōsus from verbum word