verbose

verbose
adj
wordy, prolix, loquacious, long-winded, longiloquent, multiloquent, multiloquous, voluble, effusive, fluent; talkative, glib, long-tongued, Inf. blessed with the gift of gab, mouthy, Inf. big-mouthed, Sl. all jaw, Sl. gassy, windy; chattering, chatty, gibbering, babbling, blabbering, blathering, jabbering, gabby; discursive, digressive, rambling, roving, meandering, wandering, aimless, pointless; periphrastic, pleonastic, tautological, repetitive, redundant, superfluous, profuse; circumlocutory, ambagious, circuitous, roundabout; plethoric, turgid, overblown, inflated, flatulent, tumid, swollen, bloated; magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, orotund, sonorous; bombastical; extravagant, euphuistic, florid, flowery, highflown, pretentious, pompous, high-sounding, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high-hat.

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  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Verbose —   [dt. »wortreich«], bei verschiedenen Programmen und Systemen Bezeichnung für einen Modus, bei dem ausführliche Meldungen oder Rückmeldungen ausgegeben werden. So kennt FTP einen Verbose Modus, der mit dem Befehl »verbose on/off« ein bzw.… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • verbose — index flatulent, inflated (bombastic), loquacious, profuse, prolific, prolix, redundant, voluble …   Law dictionary

  • verbose — 1540s (implied in verbosity), from L. verbosus full of words, wordy, from verbum word (see VERB (Cf. verb)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • verbose — *wordy, prolix, diffuse, redundant Analogous words: grandiloquent, magniloquent, flowery, bombastic (see RHETORICAL): loquacious, voluble, glib, garrulous, *talkative Antonyms: laconic Contrasted words: *concise, terse, succinct: compact, *close …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • verbose — [adj] wordy, long winded bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air*, fustian, gabby*, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious,… …   New thesaurus

  • verbose — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ using or expressed in more words than are needed. DERIVATIVES verbosely adverb verbosity noun. ORIGIN Latin verbosus, from verbum word …   English terms dictionary

  • verbose — [vər bōs′] adj. [L verbosus, full of words < verbum,WORD] using or containing too many words; wordy; long winded; prolix SYN. WORDY verbosely adv. verbosity [vərbäs′ə tē] n. verboseness …   English World dictionary

  • Verbose — Der Verbose Modus (verbose engl. für „wortreich“, „weitschweifig“) ist ein Ausführungsmodus von Computerprogrammen. In der Regel betrifft dieser Modus Programme, die von einer Kommandozeile aus aufgerufen werden. Wird er gewählt, dokumentiert das …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • verbose — adjective Etymology: Latin verbosus, from verbum Date: 1672 1. containing more words than necessary ; wordy < a verbose reply >; also impaired by wordiness < a verbose style > 2. given to wordiness < a verbose …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • verbose — adjective /vɜːˈbəʊs/ a) Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy. Even the most jingoistic of native speakers of Spanish admit their language is verbose; compared to what can be said in a sentence in English …   Wiktionary

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