as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
had to wade through a verbose letter of complaint
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as in wordiness
the use of too many words to express an idea
your ideas are good, but your penchant for verbosity is unfortunate
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Recent Examples of verbose
Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
Their conversations — facetious, verbose, skittish — propel the narrative, reveal their personalities and betray their intentions.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
So, Soul gravitated to the most verbose, formalist, showily technical music available to him.
—Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
Their conversations — facetious, verbose, skittish — propel the narrative, reveal their personalities and betray their intentions.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2022
Noun
Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbose
Adjective
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The final part is a rather rambling segment philosophizing on proof of the afterlife—in line with dozens of similar texts from this era of psychical research.—
Alice Vernon
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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The videos, which depict handwritten journals and a display of high-powered weaponry, paint a portrait of a person with a rambling and deeply nihilistic outlook, according to analyses by law enforcement and ABC News.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Harjo understands better than all but a few of his star’s previous collaborators how to weaponize Hawke’s gift for playing talkative dirtbags who are equal parts insufferable and charming.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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That of course was not unusual, but what was unusual was how talkative this man had been.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.—
Roberta Smith,
New York Times,
30 May 2024
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His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive.—
Kapil Komireddi,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2023
Noun
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In fact, the seals landed in the same statistical range as nursery rhymes, where repetition and predictability help a message carry and be remembered.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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Try these exercises and gradually progress them by adding more resistance, sets, and repetitions over time.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Anders is also very wordy, and subtitles can only capture maybe 30 percent of it.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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For example, the AI maker might tell the AI to always respond succinctly and not be overly wordy.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
Noun
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.—
Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
Noun
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Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.—
Gary Gilson,
Star Tribune,
31 Oct. 2020
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“Verbose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbose. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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