verbose

English

Etymology

Latin verbosus

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɜːˈbəʊs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊs

Adjective

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

1. Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary; long-winded.
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

• (abounding in words): For semantic relationships of this sense, see verbose in the Thesaurus.

Antonyms

• concise
• terse

Related terms

• verbosity

Translations

abounding in words

• Catalan: verbós
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: verbeus (nl)
• Finnish: monisanainen
• French: verbeux (fr)
• German: wortreich (de), ausführlich (de), langatmig (de)
• Greek: πολύλογος (el) m (polýlogos) (person), μακροσκελής (el) m, f (makroskelís) (speech, writing), φλύαρος (el) m (flýaros)
• Hungarian: bőbeszédű (hu), szószátyár (hu), fecsegő (hu)
• Indonesian: penyedehanaan kata
• Irish: foclach, briathrach

• Italian: verboso (it), prolisso (it), iperverboso, ridondante (it)
• Japanese: 冗長 (じょうちょう, jōchō), くどくどしい (kudokudoshii)
• Korean: 자세한 정보 (jasehan jeongbo)
• Malay: berjela-jela
• Maori: autaki
• Portuguese: verboso (pt)
• Russian: многосло́вный (ru) (mnogoslóvnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mnogorječivo, govorljivo (sh)
• Spanish: verboso
• Swedish: mångordig

computing: detailed output for diagnostic purposes

• German: wortreich (de), ausführlich (de)
• Greek: λεπτομερής (el) m, f (leptomerís)

• Turkish: ayrıntılı (tr), detaylı (tr)

Anagrams

• observe, obverse

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Italian

Adjective

verbose

1. feminine plural of verboso

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Latin

Adjective

verbōse

1. vocative masculine singular of verbōsus

References

• verbose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verbose in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “verbose” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)