Expatiate vs Verbose - What's the difference?
expatiate | verbose |
As a verb expatiate is to range at large, or without restraint. As an adjective verbose is abounding in words, containing more words than necessary long winded, or windy.
expatiate English
Verb
( expatiat)
To range at large, or without restraint.
* Alexander Pope
- Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
*1851 ,
- Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
* Addison
- He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
* 2007 , Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
*:“It can't fly,” he expatiated . “It can move forward only by hopping.”
(obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
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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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