verbose

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  1. adjective Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy. See Synonyms at wordy.

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  • His prose is simple but also verbose, a combination that proves leaden, and when he grasps for cuteness, he fails. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless. —  Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
  • There's a reason programming languages don't use natural language - it's verbose, ambiguous and imprecise. —  Valhalla Island
  • Edward is extremly poetic and verbose, and yet manages to say very little of substance other than that he loves Bella. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • A lot of contracts are very verbose, and people have implied trust as to what the sales person is telling them, after all they are supposed to know more about a certain product then we do. —  blogTO
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  1. Middle English *verbous, from Latin verbōsus, from verbum, word; see verb.

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  1. = French verbeux = Spanish Portuguese Italian verboso, from Latin verbosus, full of words, prolix, wordy, from verbum, word: see verb.
 

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/vərˈboʊs/
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