verboseadjective
uk/vɜːˈbəʊs/us/vɚˈboʊs/formal disapprovingusing or containing more words than are necessary:
a verbose explanation/report/speech/style
He was a notoriously verbose after-dinner speaker.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Talking too much
- barrage
- bend
- bend sb's ear idiom
- dozen
- edgeways
- keep
- keep on
- long-winded
- nineteen/ten to the dozen idiom
- overplay your hand idiom
- padding
- prolix
- rambling
- say
- talk
- talk sb's ass off idiom
- talk the hind leg(s) off a donkey idiom
- verbal diarrhoea
- wordy
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Difficult to understand
verbosely
adverb uk/vɜːˈbəʊs.li/us/vɚˈboʊs.li/
verbosity
noun [ U ] uk/vɜːˈbɒs.ə.ti/us/vɚˈbɑː.sə.t̬i/