verbosely
- adverb
- /vɜrˈboʊsli/
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verbosamente
- Martin Sherman takes too long to get to the point and dances around it too verbosely when he does.
Examples
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For example, at the end of May, former TechCrunch writer Paul Carr publicly and verbosely castigated Business Insider for many of their page-view driving tactics.
Blog text (26) -
His answer was filled with unnecessary details and was delivered verbosely, causing the audience to become restless.
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This includes verbosely typed languages like C and C++, and also type-inferencing languages like Haskell and ML.
Blog text (19) -
His celebrated description of the remorseful Judas in an early painting by Rembrandt proves that he himself relished describing verbally (perhaps even verbosely) states of intense mental turbulence.
Academic text (1991) -
The teacher explained the topic so verbosely that many students lost interest halfway through.
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During the meeting, she expressed her ideas very verbosely, making it hard for anyone to follow her point.
Synonyms
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For a long time and with too many details
To speak or write using too many words so people lose interest
To say or write more than needed about something
Using more words than needed makes speech or writing feel long
In a friendly way that shows someone enjoys speaking a lot
In a way that moves from topic to topic when someone speaks or writes
In a long, fancy way that sounds too important when speaking or writing
To speak or write in a showy, formal way using fancy words
In a showy, proud way using big, fancy words
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Etymology
Verbosely comes from the Latin root verbum 'word' and is the same root you see in verb and verbal. So to speak or write verbosely is to do it 'with too many words'.