Verbose Synonyms and Antonyms

vər-bōs
Using or containing an excessive number of words
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. long-winded
  2. prolix
  3. wordy
  4. redundant
  5. diffuse
  6. periphrastic
  7. windy
  8. pleonastic
  9. tedious
  10. flowery
  11. grandiloquent
  12. loquacious
  13. repetitive
  14. tautologous
  15. gabby
  16. talkative
  17. repetitious
  18. circumlocutory
  19. abounding in tautology
  20. repeating
  21. bombastic
  22. involved
  23. involuted
  24. tortuous
  25. garrulous
  26. magniloquent
  27. rhetorical
  28. voluble
  29. over-rhetorical
  30. fustian
  31. characterized by redundancy
  32. word-mongering
  33. farsed
  34. stuffed
  35. loudmouthed
  36. talky
  37. big-mouthed
  38. blabby
  39. full of air
Antonyms:
  1. concise
  2. succinct
  3. terse
  4. precise
Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. wordy

Words Related to Verbose

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Verbose Sentence Examples

  • The schools were extensive buildings attached to the temples, where from an early age boys and girls were taught by the priests to sweep the sanctuaries and keep up the sacred fires, to fast at proper seasons and draw blood for penance, and where they received moral teaching in long and verbose formulas.

  • Her redundant language is making her sound verbose.

  • Being verbose and exaggerating a person's qualities will not help.

  • Don't go off on a tangent or get too verbose.

  • It is discursive in its style and verbose; but, considering the period at which it appeared, it is remarkable for the strong common sense displayed by the author, his comparative freedom from prejudice, and his firm application of the methods of scientific reasoning to the interpretation of phenomena.

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