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verbose

/vəˈbəʊs/ UK
/vɚˈboʊs/ Canada, US
/vəˈbəʉs/ Australia
/vəˈbɐʉs/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊs

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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 (“word”) + -ose (“-ful”), literally “full of words”.

adjective more verbose · most verbose

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[,] Cavil
Opposite: brief, concise, crisp, laconic, lapidary, short-winded, succinct, tight, to the point, taut, terse
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.

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adj containing or using more words than necessary — see also long-winded, wordy

Español	verboso
한국어	자세한 정보 jasehan jeongbo
日本語	冗長 jōchō, くどくどしい kudokudoshii
中文	羅嗦 /罗嗦 luōsuo, 冗長 /冗长 rǒngcháng, 冗贅 /冗赘 rǒngzhuì, 絮叨
Português	verboso
Français	verbeux, prolixe
Deutsch	ausführlich, langatmig, wortreich, verbos
Italiano	verboso, iperverboso, logorroico, prolisso, ridondante
Ελληνικά	πολύλογος polýlogos, μακροσκελής makroskelís, φλύαρος flýaros
Русский	многосло́вный mnogoslóvnyj

adj (computing) producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes

Deutsch	ausführlich, wortreich, verbos
Ελληνικά	αναλυτικός analytikós, λεπτομερής leptomerís

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@misc{verbose_2026,
  title = {verbose},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/verbose},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}