Definitions for verbose

verbose ver·bose

Spelling: [ver-bohs]
IPA: /vərˈboʊs/

Verbose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in verbose (beeorsv).

Definitions for verbose

adjective

  1. characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy:

Origin of verbose

1665-75; Latin verbōsus, equivalent to verb(um) word + -ōsus -ose1

Examples for verbose

In style they are verbose and heavy and very frequently polemical.

Some are verbose in the extreme, others are terse to barrenness.

Pac may not be as verbose as other rappers of his time, but his flow is intricate, and complicated to replicate.

So Mrs. Beecot wrote in her verbose style, and with some errors of grammar.

The verbose Marmot, wordless; the listless Slaughter, dominant.

O'Mally, verbose as ever, did all the talking and vending of news.

The pencil was verbose every time general subjects were broached.

The Spaniards, with their verbose solemnity, particularly bored him.

It was an epic in blank verse—dreary, monotonous, and verbose.

These were not statements of knowledge, but verbose confessions of ignorance.

Word Value for verbose
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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