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Verbose

adjective

Using or containing too many words. Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy. "Verbose and ineffective instructional methods" , "Newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials" , "Proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

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"Verbose" Quotes from Famous Books

... Unusually eloquent and verbose was the sermon that day, for not only was the preacher aware that bright eyes looked upon his deeds, but he saw his enemies in the front of the battle. Surely all extemporaneous speakers, in court, pulpit, ...

— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence

... translating this Author, for I had all the way an Eye to School boys, and Learners of the Latin Tongue: Therefore, upon that account, I have not only kept perfectly close to his Sence, but almost always to his Words too; a thing not only extream difficult in an Author so frequently verbose, but oftentimes dangerous too: And for an Instance, I need not go any further than the very first Sentence of the Prologue to Amphitryon, which if I had made shorter, I cou'd have made better. I can't forbear mentioning a Passage in ...

— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard

Words linked to "Verbose" : prolix, verboseness, verbosity