Tedious vs Verbose - What's the difference?
tedious | verbose |
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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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)
As adjectives the difference between tedious and verbose
is that tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome while verbose is abounding in words, containing more words than necessary long winded, or windy.tedious
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* tediously * tediousnessAnagrams
* *verbose
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Adjective
(en adjective)- You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless.
