Verbose means using far more words than are needed. A verbose report, verbose and repetitive, less verbose.
It is a criticism of the writing rather than the writer's knowledge, and in programming it also names a mode that prints every detail of what a program is doing. The Latin behind it is simply word.
1adjectiveverboseUsing far more words than are needed.
“His verbose emails take ten minutes to read and say almost nothing.”
verbose is a quality.
Latin verbosus comes from verbum, a word.
Proto-Indo-European
*werh₁- — to say, speak
Latin
verbōsus — prolix, wordy, verbose
English, today
verbose
Built from
From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus. Equivalent to verb + -ose.
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