using or containing more words than are needed synonym long-winded冗长的;啰嗦的;唠叨的 a verbose speaker/style 啰里啰嗦的演讲者;长篇大论 Much academic language is obscure and verbose. 学术语言常常是既晦涩又冗长。 The editors received streams of verbose articles from young hopeful journalists. 编辑们从充满希望的年轻记者那里收到一连串冗长的文章。 The man was smartly dressed, verbose, and seriously agitated. 这个人穿着时髦,啰嗦,而且非常激动。
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin verbosus, from verbum ‘word’.