verbose
adjective /vɜːˈbəʊs/
/vɜːrˈbəʊs/
(formal, disapproving)- using or containing more words than are needed synonym long-winded
- a verbose speaker/style
- Much academic language is obscure and verbose.
- The editors received streams of verbose articles from young hopeful journalists.
- The man was smartly dressed, verbose, and seriously agitated.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin verbosus, from verbum ‘word’.