verbose
ver-BOSEadjMeaning using more words than are needed
Memory hook VERB-HOSE: a fire hose of words. Ask the lawyer a yes-or-no question, and words gush out like water from a fire hose: “Firstly, secondly, furthermore…” He is verbose.
The verbose instructions took three pages to explain how to plug in a lamp.
In context His answer was so verbose that by the time he finally reached his point, half the class had forgotten the question.
Similar wordy, long-winded, rambling, windy
Opposite concise, succinct, terse
From Latin verbosus, “full of words,” from verbum, word.