Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy. synonym: wordy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
- adjective computing Producing unusually
detailed output fordiagnostic purposes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using or containing too many words
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be first in your age group to embrace technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be first in your age group to embrace technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email.
Don McNay: Be First in Your Age Group to Embrace Technology Don McNay 2010
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Senator Obama can you define the word verbose in less than 10,00 words?
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squareintheteeth commented on the word verbose
Probably a descriptor that can be attached to most wordies.
December 19, 2006
Prolagus commented on the word verbose
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)
August 20, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word verbose
Why can't we add words to the synonyms or related section????
May 10, 2012