verbose UK /vəˈbəʊs/US /vɚˈboʊs/ adjective2 •Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy.[...] I might seem to deserve justly to be accounted a verbose and silly Defender; [...] — 1692 •Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless. — 2001 formsmore verbose · most verbose