Verbose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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