Verbose \Ver*bose"\, a. [L. verbosus, from verbum a word. See
Verb.]
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are
necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy;
as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
[1913 Webster]
Too verbose in their way of speaking. --Ayliffe.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
verbose
adj : using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy)
speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional
methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy
editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy
disputes" [syn: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbose":
all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative,
conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable,
effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive,
extended, filled out, flip, flowery, fluent, frank, gabby,
garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, grandiloquent, gratuitous,
gregarious, gushy, in excess, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out,
long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, magniloquent,
multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential,
overtalkative, padded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix,
protracted, redundant, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out,
supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic,
tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary,
unneeded, unrelenting, voluble, windy, wordy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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