verbose

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /vɜːˈbəʊs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊs

Etymology

From Latin verbosus.

Adjective

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

1. Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.

   Even the most jingoistic of native-speakers of Spanish admit their language is verbose; compared to what can be said in a sentence in English, it sometimes takes a paragraph of explanation in Spanish to say the same thing.

2. (computing) Producing unusually detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
   • 2001, Richard Blum, Postfix (page 532)

     You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.

Synonyms

• wordy
• long-winded
• See also Wikisaurus:verbose

Antonyms

• concise
• terse

Related terms

• verbosity

Translations

abounding in words

• Catalan: verbós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冗贅 (cmn), 冗赘 (cmn) (rǒngzhuì), 羅嗦 (cmn), 罗嗦 (cmn) (luōsuo), 冗長 (cmn), 冗长 (cmn) (rǒngcháng)

• Dutch: verbeus (nl)
• Finnish: monisanainen (fi)
• French: verbeux (fr)
• German: wortreich (de)
• Hungarian: bőbeszédű (hu), szószátyár (hu), fecsegő (hu)

• Indonesian: penyedehanaan kata (id)
• Irish: foclach (ga)
• Italian: verboso (it)
• Japanese: 冗長 (ja) (じょうちょう, jōchō)
• Korean: 자세한 정보 (ko) (jasehan jeongbo)
• Russian: многословный (ru) (mnogoslóvnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mnogorječivo (sh), govorljivo (sh)
• Spanish: verboso (es)

Anagrams

• observe
• obverse

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Italian

Adjective

verbose f

1. Feminine plural form of verboso

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Latin

Adjective

verbōse

1. vocative masculine singular of verbōsus