verbose
Using too many
Verbose means using more words than necessary.
Verbose writing or speech is wordy, long-winded, cluttered with filler: The report was so verbose I couldn't find the main point.
The word often carries mild criticism—verbosity obscures rather than clarifies.
A verbose error message in computing provides detailed information, which may actually be welcome.
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
diffuse · discursive · expansive · voluble · windy · protracted · digressive · meandering
Unnecessarily wordy in expression
- tautologicalSelf-repeating in meaning
- repetitiousCharacterized by needless recurrence
- superfluousExceeding what suffices
- circumlocutorySpeaking in circles
periphrastic · padded · reiterative · unnecessary · excessive · overwritten · bloated · belabored
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
- turgidSwollen or pompous
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
orotund · magniloquent · fustian · overwrought · rhetorical · flowery · purple · inflated
Full of specifics
- expositoryServing to explain
- explanatoryServing to clarify meaning
- illustrativeServing to explain
- comprehensiveIncluding all elements
thorough · explicit · informative · elaborate · annotated · exhaustive · meticulous · in-depth
long-winded
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- wordyUsing more language than necessary
- garrulousTediously long-winded
loquacious · diffuse · discursive · expansive · voluble · windy · protracted · digressive · meandering · drawn-out
pleonastic
Unnecessarily wordy in expression
- tautologicalSelf-repeating in meaning
- repetitiousCharacterized by needless recurrence
- superfluousExceeding what suffices
circumlocutory · periphrastic · padded · reiterative · unnecessary · excessive · overwritten · bloated · belabored · overdone
grandiloquent
Pretentiously elevated in speech
florid · orotund · magniloquent · fustian · overwrought · rhetorical · flowery · purple · inflated · pretentious
detailed
Full of specifics
- expositoryServing to explain
- explanatoryServing to clarify meaning
- illustrativeServing to explain
comprehensive · thorough · explicit · informative · elaborate · annotated · exhaustive · meticulous · in-depth · extensive
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
- literary stylespastoral, lyrical prose, satirical, poetic prose, lyrical
- Purple Proseflorid, overwrought, ornate, flowery, overblown
- debuggingdebug, debugging, debugger, breakpoint, breakpoints
- quality descriptorsexcellent, good, fair, poor, accurate
- SAT vocabularyaesthetic, ambiguous, benevolent, candid, concise