The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Verbose \Ver*bose"\, a. [L. verbosus, from verbum a word. See
Verb.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Too verbose in their way of speaking. --Ayliffe.
[1913 Webster] -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. -- Ver*bose"ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "verbose":
all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative,
conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable,
effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive,
extended, filled out, flip, flowery, fluent, frank, gabby,
garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, grandiloquent, gratuitous,
gregarious, gushy, in excess, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out,
long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, magniloquent,
multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential,
overtalkative, padded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix,
protracted, redundant, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out,
supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic,
tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary,
unneeded, unrelenting, voluble, windy, wordy