It's the word of the day for July 1st.
Today's word is verbose, spelled V-E-R-B-O-S-E.
Verbose is an adjective.
Someone described as verbose tends to use many words to convey their point.
Verbose can also describe something such as a speech that contains more words than necessary.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Philadelphia Daily News.
There's no shortage of words to describe wordiness in English.
long-winded, prolix, redundant, windy, repetitive,
rambling, and circumlocutory are some that come to mind.
Want to express the opposite idea?
Try succinct, concise, brief, short, summary, terse, compact, or compendious.
Verbose, which falls solidly in the first camp of words,
comes from the Latin adjective verbosus, from verbum, meaning word.
Other descendants of verbum include verb, adverb, proverb, verbal,
and verbicide, that is, the deliberate distortion of the sense of a word.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.