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Verbose

//vəˈbəʊs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.

    "I omit more than an Hundred Things, that would engage to perſonal Reflection; for my Soul hath no Pleaſure in ſtriving therein, as knowing the inconſiſtancy of that uncharitable virulent Temper with a Chriſtian Spirit, which I am aſſured is quite another Thing, from what is Verboſe, Abuſive[,] Cavilling, Airy, and meerly Notional; [...]"

  2. 2
    Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

    "You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless."

Adjective
  1. 1
    using or containing too many words wordnet

Etymology

From Latin verbōsus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”). Verbōsus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Equivalent to verb + -ose.

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