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verbose
/vɚˈboʊs/
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What does verbose mean?
adjective
- Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
- Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
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But one of the defects of the listening habit is perhaps to make them too rhetorical, too verbose.
But I thought that was perhaps no more than a natural reserve accentuated by the verbose frankness of her husband.
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The deeds of assignment, like the conveyances of a verbose attorney, would be more cumbersome; but the thing assigned would be precisely the same as before, and could produce only the same effects.
Yet, with all their profound explanations of theories and their verbose defense of hopelessly unscientific methods, the stammerer would be disappointed indeed, should he attempt to find in the entire collection a practical and understandable discussion of his trouble.
“I must confess,” she continued, “that if I had known how many classics there are in English literature, and how verbose the best of them contrive to be, I should never have undertaken the work. They only allow one seventy thousand words, you see.”