Crossword-Solution: VERBOSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Verbose | a. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VERBOSE | anagram | OBSERVE, OBVERSE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with VERBOSE (5)
The language requires code verbose beyond all reason; thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
But I thought that was perhaps no more than a natural reserve accentuated by the verbose frankness of her husband.
What he had to say was confused, halting, and verbose; but Philip knew the words which served as the text of his rambling discourse.
The same rules,” he contended, “applied to both, and an exuberance of dialogue, in the former case, was a verbose and laborious mode of composition which went to confound the proper art of fictitious narrative with that of the drama, a widely different species of composition, of which dialogue was the very essence, because all, excepting the language to be made use of, was presented to the eye by the dresses, and persons, and actions of the performers upon the stage.
Few facts, and few sentiments, can be extracted from his verbose correspondence.] But the hopes of Symmachus were repeatedly baffled by the firm and dexterous opposition of the archbishop of Milan, who fortified the emperors against the fallacious eloquence of the advocate of Rome.
Quotes with VERBOSE (3)
The best antidote to the furtive poison of anger, fear, anxiety, or any of our destructive, unwieldy passions, is just gratitude. And not the grandiose, boisterous or especially obvious kind. It is not necessarily the verbose or expressive kind. It's often the full immersion, a kind of deep submersion even, into a pool of awareness. This penitent affect distills within us surreal realizations; it is a focus, tinged with layers of deep remorse and the profound beauty of newfou…
Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been a visiting writer in several authoritarian and totalitarian states, and usually the question answers itself. Someone in a café makes an offhand remark. A piece of ironic graffiti is scrawled in the men's room. Some group at the university issues some improvised leaflet. The glac…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).