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
Example sentences :
  • 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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