Usually means: Using more words than necessary.
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  1. verbose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. verbose: Merriam-Webster
  3. verbose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. verbose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. verbose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. verbose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Verbose, verbose: Wordnik
  8. verbose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. verbose: Wiktionary
  10. verbose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. verbose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. verbose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. verbose: Dictionary.com
  14. verbose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Verbose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Verbose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. verbose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. verbose: Rhymezone
  19. verbose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. verbose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. verbose: FreeDictionary.org
  22. verbose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. verbose: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. verbose: Legal dictionary

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  1. verbose: Encyclopedia

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  1. verbose: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (verbose)

▸ adjective:  Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from 17th c.]
▸ adjective:  (computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

Similar:
wordy, long-winded, prolix, tedious, windy, oververbose, lengthy, overwordy, overlanguaged, longwinded, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, laconic

Types:
circumlocutory, periphrastic, tautological, pleonastic, periphrasis, more...

Phrases:
Verbose mode, less verbose, opposite of verbose, overly verbose, not verbose, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, usual, write, wordlness, wordiness, int, extern, latter, unsigned

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Similar:
wordy, long-winded, prolix, tedious, windy, oververbose, lengthy, overwordy, overlanguaged, longwinded, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, laconic

Types:
circumlocutory, periphrastic, tautological, pleonastic, periphrasis, more...

Phrases:
Verbose mode, less verbose, opposite of verbose, overly verbose, not verbose, excessively verbose, hardly verbose, verbose but shallow, opposite of opposite of verbose, verbose person, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, usual, write, wordlness, wordiness, int, extern, latter, unsigned

Colors:
    crimson,     cerulean,     chartreuse,     vermilion,     amethyst, more...



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