Antonyms for verbose
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ver-bohs |
| Phonetic Transcription : vərˈboʊs |
Definition of verbose
Origin :- 1540s (implied in verbosity), from Latin verbosus "full of words, wordy," from verbum "word" (see verb).
- adj wordy, long-winded
- The Spaniards, with their verbose solemnity, particularly bored him.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- In style they are verbose and heavy and very frequently polemical.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- O'Mally, verbose as ever, did all the talking and vending of news.
- Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
- So Mrs. Beecot wrote in her verbose style, and with some errors of grammar.
- Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume
- The verbose Marmot, wordless; the listless Slaughter, dominant.
- Extract from : « Colonial Born » by G. Firth Scott
- Some are verbose in the extreme, others are terse to barrenness.
- Extract from : « The Matabele Campaign » by R. S. S. Baden-Powell
- The pencil was verbose every time general subjects were broached.
- Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
- It was an epic in blank verse—dreary, monotonous, and verbose.
- Extract from : « The Collector » by Henry T. Tuckerman
- These were not statements of knowledge, but verbose confessions of ignorance.
- Extract from : « Determinism or Free-Will? » by Chapman Cohen
- Baha's style is rhetorical, verbose, prolix, but with a certain strength.
- Extract from : « Bahaism and Its Claims » by Samuel Graham Wilson
Synonyms for verbose
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