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Verbose vs Nonverbose - What's the difference?

verbose | nonverbose |

As adjectives the difference between verbose and nonverbose

is that verbose is abounding in words, containing more words than necessary. Long winded, or windy while nonverbose is not verbose: not using or composed of very many words; terse, concise, or untalkative.

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

    Anagrams

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    nonverbose

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not verbose: not using or composed of very many words; terse, concise, or untalkative.
  • * 2007 , Donald H Kausler, Barry C Kausler, Jill A Krupsaw, The essential guide to aging in the twenty-first century
    • The researchers at Concordia University also found no difference in memory functioning between their verbose and nonverbose older participants...
  • * 2001 , Steven M Hancock, Tru64 Unix file system administration handbook?
    • The first example is the nonverbose output and the second shows verbose output.