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单词 verbose
释义

Definition of verbose in English:

verbose

adjectivevəːˈbəʊsvərˈboʊs
  • Using or expressed in more words than are needed.

    much academic language is obscure and verbose
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And that was my conversation with Habib, a verbose character.
    • He was much more genuine and soft spoken than any of us expected, nothing like the verbose figurehead I'd come to expect.
    • He cares and worries intensely about movies, and he's eloquent, loquacious, even verbose on the subject.
    • Yesterday I told myself that I needed to stop teasing Kevin Keith about his verbose comments.
    • Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted.
    • She often wondered how could a man be so verbose.
    • His text is full of redundant capital letters and is lavishly verbose.
    • In a joke worthy of the painfully verbose Professor Dorr, the film may have plenty of cellars, but it certainly has no Sellers.
    • The next guy I asked was more verbose, but similarly focused.
    • This is no mean feat given Bovell's verbose characters.
    • And this is so not because of the depth of his arguments, but because of the repulsively repetitive and verbose style of the book.
    • He was even less verbose than my next favorite president, Calvin Coolidge.
    • An English speaker more verbose than profound, her husband waxes nostalgically about Bangladesh, to where he vows to return.
    • He was a verbose, tobacco-chewing, rib jabber, and an honest and egotistical man.
    • I don't have to become verbose in using the party talking points as you do when I write this information to you.
    • Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
    • I am sure that this email seems overwhelming, and verbose.
    • I am verbose and boring and post far to much drivel.
    • I'm trying to teach him not to do that, but he comes from a long line of verbose geeks on his father's side, and it's an uphill battle.
    • Matthew was quite verbose and decided to rant to us a little.
    Synonyms
    wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble, orotund, expansive, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive
    long-winded, lengthy, protracted, prolix, periphrastic, circumlocutory, circuitous, tautological, repetitious, redundant, tortuous, indirect, convoluted
    diffuse, discursive, digressive, rambling, wandering, meandering
    informal mouthy, gabby, windy, gassy, talky, with the gift of the gab, having kissed the Blarney stone, yakking, big-mouthed
    British informal wittering, gobby
    rare multiloquent, multiloquous, ambagious, logorrhoeic, pleonastic

Derivatives

  • verbosely

  • adverbvəːˈbəʊslivərˈboʊsli
    • Somewhere, I have a bunch of photos I took in London of signs politely and verbosely requesting the viewer's compliance.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although Kaczynski tends to expand verbosely on his opinions, his thoughts always remain coherent and directed by a conscious design.
      • I feel/think your version of ‘discourse’ above is a little icky, is what I am politely if verbosely trying to say.
  • verboseness

  • noun

Origin

Late 17th century: from Latin verbosus, from verbum 'word'.

Rhymes

adiós, chausses, Close, Davos, dose, engross, gross, Grosz, jocose, morose, Rhos
 
 

Definition of verbose in US English:

verbose

adjectivevərˈbōsvərˈboʊs
  • Using or expressed in more words than are needed.

    much academic language is obscure and verbose
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am verbose and boring and post far to much drivel.
    • Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted.
    • He was even less verbose than my next favorite president, Calvin Coolidge.
    • He cares and worries intensely about movies, and he's eloquent, loquacious, even verbose on the subject.
    • In a joke worthy of the painfully verbose Professor Dorr, the film may have plenty of cellars, but it certainly has no Sellers.
    • She often wondered how could a man be so verbose.
    • And this is so not because of the depth of his arguments, but because of the repulsively repetitive and verbose style of the book.
    • This is no mean feat given Bovell's verbose characters.
    • Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
    • Matthew was quite verbose and decided to rant to us a little.
    • Yesterday I told myself that I needed to stop teasing Kevin Keith about his verbose comments.
    • He was a verbose, tobacco-chewing, rib jabber, and an honest and egotistical man.
    • His text is full of redundant capital letters and is lavishly verbose.
    • I'm trying to teach him not to do that, but he comes from a long line of verbose geeks on his father's side, and it's an uphill battle.
    • I am sure that this email seems overwhelming, and verbose.
    • An English speaker more verbose than profound, her husband waxes nostalgically about Bangladesh, to where he vows to return.
    • I don't have to become verbose in using the party talking points as you do when I write this information to you.
    • And that was my conversation with Habib, a verbose character.
    • The next guy I asked was more verbose, but similarly focused.
    • He was much more genuine and soft spoken than any of us expected, nothing like the verbose figurehead I'd come to expect.
    Synonyms
    wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble, orotund, expansive, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive

Origin

Late 17th century: from Latin verbosus, from verbum ‘word’.

 
 
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