Definitions
using or containing too many words
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“[...] I might ſeem to deſerve juſtly to be accounted a verboſe and ſilly Defender; [...]”
“Thy ſonnet is a piece of verboſe fuſtian; and thy preface is compoſed of far-fetch'd expreſſions, vvords that have not the publick ſtamp, perplexed phraſes; in a vvord, thy ſtile is quite peculiar to thyſelf; […]”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Excessively wordy”7 letters
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