verbose
adjective
[ vəːˈbəʊs ]
• using or expressed in more words than are needed.
• "much academic language is obscure and verbose"
Similar:
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,
mouthy,
gabby,
windy,
gassy,
talky,
with the gift of the gab,
yakking,
big-mouthed,
wittering,
gobby,
multiloquent,
multiloquous,
ambagious,
logorrhoeic,
pleonastic,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from Latin verbosus, from verbum ‘word’.
