verbose

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ver=bose

CIDE DICTIONARY

verbose, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

verbose, adj. using or expressed in more words than are needed.

Derivative

verbosely adv. verboseness n. verbosity n.

Etymology

L verbosus f. verbum word

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

verbose

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.