verbose

Word family

TOO/TOO MUCHusing or containing too many words 啰唆的，累赘的，冗长的

For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.

他那个一贯唠叨的老婆难得一次愿意倾听。

Legal writing is often unclear and verbose.

法律文书往往措辞含糊，行文冗长。

—verbosely adverbadv

—verbosity /vɜːˈbɒsəti $ vɜːrˈbɑː-/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

verbose• Much academic language is, in practice, obscure and verbose.• Parts are too brief or repetitive and verbose.• He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence.• But around it, the group of men was smartly clad, verbose and seriously agitated.• Legal writing is frequently criticised for being unclear, verbose, convoluted and incomprehensible.• I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns.• a verbose television sportscaster

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 33693 COCA: 36378

verbose