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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-635/
- Published: 2026-05-13T18:15:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-13T18:15:58.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

verbose (adjective) -

1: containing more words than necessary : wordy, also : impaired by wordiness  
2: given to wordiness

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verbose?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 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. Verbose, which falls solidly into the first camp of words, comes from the Latin adjective verbōsus, from verbum, meaning "word." Other descendants of verbum include verb, adverb, proverb, verbal, and verbicide ("the deliberate distortion of the sense of a word").

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