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adjective 
  1. Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
  2. Of or pertaining to languages that take longer to speak than other languages.
Even the most jingoistic of native-speakers of Spanish admit their language is verbose; compared to what can be said in a sentence in English, it sometimes takes a paragraph of explanation in Spanish to say the same thing.
Etymology: From verbosus.

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