Verbose

Definition: Verbose

Verbose

Adjective

1. Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes".

Date "verbose" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Verbose \Ver*bose"\, adjective. [Latin expression verbosus, from verbum word. See Verb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Verbose

Synonyms: long-winded (adj), tedious (adj), windy (adj), wordy (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Diffuseness	Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Verbose

English words defined with "verbose": inimitably ♦ long-windedly ♦ meaningless ♦ -ose ♦ unreproducibly ♦ verbosely ♦ windily, wordily. (references)

Specialty definitions using "verbose": COmmon Business Oriented Language, CrApTeX ♦ Rapidwrite ♦ user-obsequious. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Nonsery rhymes : a miscellaneous assortment of rum rhymes, verbose verbiage and bare-faced buffoonery (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Verbose" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Verbose" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	31	62,296

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "verbose": over-verbose.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "verbose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fjalëshumë (garrulous, loquacious, talkative, voluble, windy, wordy). (various references)

Arabic		‏مسهب (ample, detailed, lengthy, prolix, redundant), ‏مطنب (lengthy, long winded, prolix, redundant, wordy). (various references)

Bulgarian		многословен (circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, diffusive, exuberant, lengthy, long winded, prolix, redundant, wordy), празнословен (windy). (various references)

Chinese		詹 (excellent), 絮絮叨叨 (yack). (various references)

Czech		verbalistický, upovídaný (garrulous, long-tongued, loquacious, talkative), užvanìný (garrulous), mnohomluvný (long winded, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Farsi		پرگو (Blabbermouth, Loquacious, Prolix, Talkative), مطول , درازنویس , درازگو (Windy), دراز (Lengthy, Linear, Longish, Oblong, Prolix, String, Toom). (various references)

Finnish		monisanainen (wordy). (various references)

French		verbeux, prolixe. (various references)

German		wortreich (verbosely, wordily, wordy). (various references)

Greek		βερμπαλιστικόσ, πολύλογοσ (chatty, loquacious, talkative, verbalizer, voluble, wordy), απεραντολίγοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מ�'בב מילים. (various references)

Hungarian		bõbeszédû (garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talkative, tattler, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Indonesian		panjang lanjut (wordy). (various references)

Italian		verboso (circumlocutory, diffusely, loquacious, roundabout, talkative, wordy), prolisso (diffuse, lengthy, long winded, prolix). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		冗長 (redundancy, tedious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くどい (heavy, importunate), じょうちょう (a senior, an elder, atmosphere, mood, one's superior, redundancy, sentiment, tedious). (various references)

Manx		focklagh (declaratory, diffuse, expansive, garrulous, loquacious, oral, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Pig Latin		erbosevay

Portuguese		verboso (circumlocutional, garter, gastric, glib, hotbed, long winded, prolix, wordy), prolixo (absent minded, diffuse, dissemination, dissipation, lengthy, overabundant, prolix, redundant, wordy), palavroso (gassy, hot air, oratorical, windy, wordy), loquaz (chatty, curling, garrulous, glib, loquacious, mouthy, voluble). (various references)

Romanian		prolix (diffuse, diffusely, long winded, prolix, wordy). (various references)

Russian		многословный (circumlocutory, diffuse, diffusive, long-winded, mouthy, prolix, redundant, wordy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		verbalan (oral, verbal), preterano govorljiv, opširan u govoru. (various references)

Spanish		verboso (windy, wordily, wordy). (various references)

Swedish		mångordig (prolix). (various references)

Turkish		lâf ebesi, gereksiz sözlerle dolu, ağzı kalabalık (flannel-mouthed, loudmouthed, mouthy). (various references)

Ukranian		багатослівний (circumlocutory, fluent, pleonastic, prolix, wordy). (various references)

Vietnamese		nói d� i d� i dòng. (various references)

Welsh		amleiriog (prolix, wordy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	verbosae, verbosi, verbosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "verbose": verbosely, verboseness, verbosenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Verbose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenbose, Leurbost, Verbeek, verbish, verbode, verboese, verbos, verbosed, verboso, verboter, vervose, virbose, Vorobiev. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: observe, obverse.
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-o-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: bevors, breves, soever.
	-2 letters: beers, bevor, bores, brees, breve, brose, erose, obese, overs, robes, roves, serve, servo, sever, sober, veers, verbs, verse, verso.
	-3 letters: beer, bees, bore, bree, bros, eros, ever, eves, obes, orbs, ores, over, rebs, rees, revs, robe, robs, roes, rose, rove, seer, sere, sorb, sore, veer, vees, verb, voes.
	-4 letters: bee, bos, bro, ere, ers, eve, obe, oes, orb, ore, ors, ose, reb, ree, res, rev, rob, roe, see, ser, sob, vee, voe.
	-5 letters: be, bo, er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-o-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: observed, observer, observes, obverses, overbets.
	+2 letters: bedcovers, observers, obversely, overbakes, overbears, overbeats, overbites, reobserve, verbosely.
	+3 letters: herbivores, observable, observance, overblouse, overbrowse, oversubtle, reobserved, reobserves, resolvable, unobserved.
	+4 letters: conversable, herbivories, observables, observances, overbidders, overblouses, overbrowsed, overbrowses, overburdens, reobserving, verboseness, verbosities.
	+5 letters: abortiveness, beaverboards, bedcoverings, convertibles, discoverable, inobservance, irresolvable, nonbelievers, overbalances, overbleaches, provableness, unobservable, unresolvable.
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