It's the word of the day for July 1st.

Today's word is verbose, spelled V-E-R-B-O-S-E.

Verboose is an adjective.

Someone described as verbose tends to use many words to convey their point.

Verboose can also describe something such as a speech that contains more words than necessary.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the Philadelphia Daily News. The dense verbose text

over which some actors stumbled, understandably, on opening night,

created a dizzying journey through a war between gods and mortals fought across time and place.

There's no shortage of words to describe wordiness in English, diffuse, long-winded, prolix,

redundant, windy, repetitive, rambling, and circumlocutory are some that come to mind. Want to express the opposite idea? Try succinct,

concise, brief, short, summary, terse, compact, or compendious. Verboose, which falls solidly in the first camp of words,

comes from the Latin adjective verbosus, from verbum meaning word. Other descendants of verboom

include verb, adverb, proverb, verbal, and verbicide, that is, the deliberate distortion

of the sense of a word.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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