'Verbose' definitions:
Definition of 'verbose'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, verbose, windy, wordy]
Definition of 'Verbose'
From: GCIDE
- 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] -- {Ver*bose"ly}, adv. -- {Ver*bose"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'verbose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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