OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 12104

verbose

/vəˈbəʊs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
verboso
Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.
So with sentences or the combinations of words. Much skill is required for their construction. They must convey your meaning accurately, and as far as possible in the natural order…
We mentioned as another of the faults of Dr. [Charles] Anthon's book, that it exhibited his usual verbose grandiloquence. [...] We objected, for instance, to the lexicon, as loaded…