[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

verbose \verbose"\, a. l. verbosus, from verbum a word. see
   verb.
   abounding in words; using or containing more words than are
   necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy;
   as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
   1913 webster

         too verbose in their way of speaking.    --ayliffe.
   1913 webster -- verbose"ly, adv. -- verbose"ness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
verb verbose"ly verbose"ness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

verbose
     adj : using or containing too many words; "long-winded or windy
           speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional
           methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy
           editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy
           disputes" syn: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy
see also:
long-winded tedious windy wordy 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

71 moby thesaurus words for "verbose":
   all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative,
   conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable,
   effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive,
   extended, filled out, flip, flowery, fluent, frank, gabby,
   garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, grandiloquent, gratuitous,
   gregarious, gushy, in excess, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out,
   long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, magniloquent,
   multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential,
   overtalkative, padded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix,
   protracted, redundant, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out,
   supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic,
   tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary,
   unneeded, unrelenting, voluble, windy, wordy

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