verbose
adj/vəˈbəʊs/UK/vɚˈboʊs/CA/vəˈbəʉs/
Etymology
From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Equivalent to verb + -ose.
Definitions
Containing or using more words than necessary
Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
- [...] I might ſeem to deſerve juſtly to be accounted a verboſe and ſilly Defender; [...]
- Thy ſonnet is a piece of verboſe fuſtian; and thy preface is compoſed of far-fetch'd expreſſions, vvords that have not the publick ſtamp, perplexed phraſes; in a vvord, thy ſtile is quite peculiar to thyſelf; […]
Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
- You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.
- For troubleshooting purposes, enable verbose logging for the WUA by following these steps: [...]
The neighborhood
- synonymcircumlocutory
- synonymdiffuse
- synonymperiphrastic
- synonympalaverous
- synonympleonastic
- synonymprolix
- synonymrigmarole
- synonymsesquipedalian
- synonymverbose
- synonymwordy
- antonymconcise
- antonymtaciturn
- antonymunverbose
- neighborverbosity
- neighborflorid
- neighborflowery
- neighbordigressive
- neighbordiscursive
- neighborexcursive
- neighborextravagant
- neighborexuberant
- neighborlengthy
- neighbormaundering
- neighborostentatious
- neighborpretentious
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for verbose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA