verbose
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[edit] Adjective
verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)
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- Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
- Of or pertaining to languages that take longer to speak than other languages.
- 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.
[edit] Synonyms
- wordy
- long-winded
- See also Wikisaurus:verbose
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abounding in words
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of or pertaining to languages that take longer to speak than others
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[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
verbose f.
- Feminine plural form of verboso
