adj
verbose
Verbose (adj) means using far more words than needed, making something long-winded and wordy.
adj
1
Using far more words than needed, making something long-winded and wordy.
"In modern processors, you pay a bigger performance hit for having verbose code than for having an extra function call because larger code can cause secondary cache hits."
— Michael Hyman, Dealing with Compiler-generated Code (1999)
"On the Furness section the sign at Grange is as brief—PASSENGERS MUST CROSS BY THE SUBWAY—as that at the next station, Arnside, is verbose: PASSENGERS ARE REQUESTED TO CROSS THE LINE BY THE BRIDGE. IT IS DANGEROUS TO CROSS THE RAILS."
— Bernard Fielding, Crossing the Line (1942)
2
Computing: giving very detailed output, useful when working out what has gone wrong.
"You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless."
— Richard Blum, Common Postfix Problems (2001)
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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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What is the meaning of verbose?
"verbose" (adj) means using far more words than needed, making something long-winded and wordy.
What is another word for verbose?
Other words for "verbose" include wordy, windy, tedious.
What is the opposite of verbose?
Opposites of "verbose" include terse, concise, succinct, laconic, brief.
What are the different meanings of verbose?
"verbose" has 2 main meanings: 1. Using far more words than needed, making something long-winded and wordy; 2. Computing: giving very detailed output, useful when working out what has gone wrong.
