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Grandiloquent vs Verbose - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between grandiloquent and verbose

is that grandiloquent is given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid while verbose is abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.

grandiloquent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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    • Synonyms

    * (overly wordy or elaborate) bombastic, extravagant, flowery, ostentatious, pretentious, sesquipedalian

    Related terms

    * grandiloquacity * grandiloquence * grandiloquism * grandiloquous * grandiloquoy * magniloquent English autological terms ----

    verbose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy.
  • (computing) Producing unusually detailed output for diagnostic purposes.
  • * 2001 , Richard Blum, Postfix (page 532)
    • You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.

    Synonyms

    * wordy * long-winded * See also

    Antonyms

    * concise * terse

    Related terms

    * verbosity

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