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verbose

Syllables: verb·ose/vəˈbəʊs/US/vɚˈboʊs/

verbose adjective: containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.

Adjective

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

  1. Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
    • I omit more than an Hundred Things, that would engage to perſonal Reflection; for my Soul hath no Pleaſure in ſtriving therein, as knowing the inconſiſtancy of that uncharitable virulent Temper with a Chriſtian Spirit, which I am aſſured is quite another Thing, from what is Verboſe, Abuſive[,]...1672, W[illiam] P[enn], “To the Impartial Reader”, in The Spirit of Truth Vindicated, against that of Error & Envy; […], [London: […] Andrew Sowle ...], →OCLC, page 8
    • [...] I might ſeem to deſerve juſtly to be accounted a verboſe and ſilly Defender; [...]1692, John Milton, “The Author’s Preface”, in [Joseph Washington], transl., A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page i
  2. Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
    • You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.2001, Richard Blum, “Common Postfix Problems”, in Postfix, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Advanced Postfix Server Topics), page 532
    • Verbose logging adds extra detail and increases the descriptiveness of the log entries made. Verbose logging also adds one additional client log file that is specific to DCM, SmsClrHost.log, and one management point log file, MP_GetSdmPackage.log.2009, Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey [et al.], “Desired Configuration Management”, in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, part III...

verbose meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

verbose in Urdu

کثرت الکلام, لفاظ

verbose in Bengali

শব্দবহুল, কথা বেশি বলে এমন

verbose in Malayalam

loquacious, wordy, garrulous
വാചാലമായ, ശബ്ദബാഹുല്യമുള്ള, വാവദൂക, പദസമൃദ്ധമായ, വാചാലതയുള്ള, വായാടിയായ

verbose in Kannada

ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಮಾತಿನ, ಬೇಡದಶ್ಟು ನುಡಿವ, ವಾಚಾಳುವಾದ, ಬೆಡಗು ಮಾತಿನ
More languagesFewer languages
verbose in Malay
berjela-jela
verbose in Indonesian
penyedehanaan kata, cerewet, banyak omong, detail

Examples of verbose in a sentence

  • They must convey your meaning accurately, and as far as possible in the natural order of thought, and yet they must not be complex, involved, verbose, stiff, ungainly, or tautological.1863, Edward W[illiam] Cox, “Letter VIII. Words—Sentences—Rhythm.”, in The Arts of Writing, Reading and Speaking, in Letters to a Law...
  • On the Furness section the sign at Grange is as brief—PASSENGERS MUST CROSS BY THE SUBWAY—as that at the next station, Arnside, is verbose: PASSENGERS ARE REQUESTED TO CROSS THE LINE BY THE BRIDGE.1942 April, Bernard Fielding, “Crossing the Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 103:
  • In modern processors, you pay a bigger performance hit for having verbose code than for having an extra function call because larger code can cause secondary cache hits.1999, Michael Hyman, Phani Vaddadi, “Dealing with Compiler-generated Code”, in Mike and Phani’s Essential C++ Techniques (Books for...
  • For troubleshooting purposes, enable verbose logging for the WUA by following these steps: [...]2015, Andre Della Monica, Chris Shilt, Russ Rimmerman, Rushi Faldu, “Understanding Software Update Architecture: Client Side”, in Mitch...

Synonyms of verbose

Antonyms

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Forms of verbose

comparativemore verbose
superlativemost verbose

Origin of verbose

From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Equivalent to verb + -ose.

Words formed from verbose

Words that rhyme with verbose

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Questions about verbose

What does verbose mean?
Verbose means containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
What is verbose in Urdu?
Verbose in Urdu is کثرت الکلام, لفاظ. See Verbose meaning in Urdu.
How do you use verbose in a sentence?
They must convey your meaning accurately, and as far as possible in the natural order of thought, and yet they must not be complex, involved, verbose, stiff, ungainly, or tautological.
What part of speech is verbose?
Verbose is an adjective.
How do you pronounce verbose?
Verbose is pronounced /vəˈbəʊs/ (UK).

Words near verbose in the dictionary

  1. verbomania
  2. verbomaniac
  3. verbomaniacs
  4. verbomotor
  5. verbophobia
  6. verbose
  7. verbosely
  8. verboseness
  9. verbosities
  10. verbosity
  11. verboten

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: verbose (page history and authors); verbose (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); verbose (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); verbose (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); verbose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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