Synonyms for verbose
- adjective
Most common
Definitions
- adj. 1
Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
Related words
- Word family
- verbosely verboseness verbosity
- Is a kind of
- digressive discursive excursive extravagant exuberant
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Verbose is applied to utterances more formal than conversation, as to writings or public addresses. We speak of a chattering monkey or a chattering idiot, a talkative child, a talkative or loquacious woman, a garrulous old man, a verbose writer.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- wordy It could've been said in a less wordy way.
- garrulous My flatmate is too garrulous.
- prolix Many readers will get lost if your writing is too prolix.
By length
- 5 letters
- windy2, gabby2, wordy2, gassy, talky2, yappy
- 6 letters
- chatty2, prolix
- 7 letters
- lengthy2, tedious3, diffuse2, flowery3, voluble3, aureate, tonguey
- 9 letters
- redundant3, talkative3, bombastic3, garrulous3
- 10 letters
- loquacious3, pleonastic, logorrheic
- 12 letters
- periphrastic
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
- 14 letters
- perissological, circumlocutory
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (windy2 = 2 syllables).