If you describe a person’s speech or something that they write as ~, you disapprove of the fact that they use too many words, especially words which are very long, formal, or literary.
The chapter is mostly ~ rhetoric.
= verbose
ADJ disapproval
If you describe a person’s speech or something that they write as ~, you disapprove of the fact that they use too many words, especially words which are very long, formal, or literary.
The chapter is mostly ~ rhetoric.
= verbose
ADJ disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012