verbose
3 synonyms and 5 antonyms for verbose, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Using far more words than needed, making something long-winded and wordy.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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Etymology
Taken from Latin verbōsus ("prolix, wordy, verbose"), itself built from verbum ("word") (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, "to say, speak") plus -ōsus (a suffix meaning 'full of, overly, prone to', forming adjectives from nouns). By surface analysis it is equivalent to verb + -ose.
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