Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy. See Synonyms at wordy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; prolix; tedious by multiplicity of words; wordy: as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
- Synonyms Wordy, diffuse. See pleonasm.
Wiktionary
- adj. Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
- adj. Producing unusually detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. using or containing too many words
Etymologies
- Middle English *verbous, from Latin verbōsus, from verbum, word; see verb.
Examples
“But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.”
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“Senator Obama can you define the word verbose in less than 10,00 words?”
“I’ll tell you this, however, the fact that you’re even discussing this in verbose fashion only indicates to this reader that you’re finding it more difficult to focus on the here and now, and Obama’s failed/failing foreign policies.”
“I fondly recall verbose walk-and-talks in the halls of the Bartlett White House.”
Sundance Interview: John Wells, Director of The Company Men | /Film
“At the risk of being called verbose, I would like to change the third answer to "HELL NO!”
“Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless.”
Twilight
“From this we can infer that "real code" is defined as verbose, sluggish, single-threaded code that is unreliable due to hard-to-find bugs.”
“She wasn't what you would call a verbose girl, but ...”
“These collections include things only grown-ups would be interested in, such as verbose audio commentaries; they also restore scenes that are usually banned from kids' TV for offensive content.”
“All right, not all old school buildings, but if you go back 50 years and beyond these are, typically, "verbose" structures ripe with verse, nuance and cadence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verbose’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 314 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
garbled, verbose, behoove, runt, douse, stipulate, condolence, incongruous, mundane, euphemism, brusque, labyrinth and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
lackluster, reprimand, loathe, abhor, willful, ample, tremulous, ominous, subtle, rescind, redundant, pretentious and 96 more...
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 189 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 132 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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Words about Words
words to describe language
invective, eloquent, laconic, solecism, calque, cognate, bombastic, verbose, anthimeria, magniloquent, amphigory, morpheme
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Bright Folk
Some words I come across in my legal studies, though not really legal jargon. And the usage doesn't shout, "hey, I think I'm smart", just simply, "this is what applies in this context."
verbose, inter alia, ostentatious, usurp, presumptuous, anachronistic, unfettered, sine qua non, amenable, subversive, irreducible, penumbra and 27 more...
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communication words
concise, ethos, cohesive, redundant, circumlocution, logos, pathos, rhetoric, articulate, verbose, taciturn, translate and 4 more...
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try to use now and then
exacerbate, inveterate, obviate, verbose, subterfuge, exasperate, disingenuous, squit, ingenue, Opiate, opioid, revile and 2 more...
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Vocab #12
Mrs. Wilson's Class 2012
euphemism, mundane, incongruous, condolence, stipulate, douse, runt, behoove, verbose, garbled
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words to come back to.
i saw you.
i dont know why - but i wanted to know more about you.
i didn't have the time at the time.
so i put you here...
in hopes we mee...
jwjarvis Why can't we add words to the synonyms or related section???? May 10, 2012
Prolagus Take an interest in me
Why must I beg for a drink?
Too verbose
You come too close, Sir
Please step back and think
That's the trouble
Flesh attracts the leery look
Rarely does the dream boy come along
He don't exist
A lover with the candour of a friend.
(I'll have to dance with Cassie, by God Help the Girl) Aug 20, 2009
squareintheteeth Probably a descriptor that can be attached to most wordies. Dec 18, 2006