Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very talkative; garrulous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Talkative; given to continual talking; chattering.
- Synonyms Garrulous, etc. See
talkative .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
- adjective rare Speaking; expressive.
- adjective Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Talkative orchatty , especially of persons given to excess conversation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of trivial conversation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fascist leader characteristically indulges in loquacious statements about himself.
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Americans called a loquacious boasting people; now, as far as my limited acquaintance with them goes, I consider they are almost laconic, and if
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Milo Slade, a 33-year-old home health-care aide suffers from habitual, unignorable impulses to do any number of odd, "pressure-releasing" actions, from twisting open the vacuum-sealed tops of jelly jars (he keeps a supply on hand in his car trunk) to inducing others to speak aloud in spontaneous conversation a random word ( "loquacious," for instance) that has popped into Milo's head.
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So even in ancient times the Romans already knew the Gauls were "loquacious", aggressive, and argumentative, or in a word "rooster like."
Archive 2008-01-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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So even in ancient times the Romans already knew the Gauls were "loquacious", aggressive, and argumentative, or in a word "rooster like."
Cocorico! Cocorico! de Brantigny........................ 2008
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As he was an orator, and by no means a great one, being stigmatised as "loquacious" by
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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KOTA BARU: She may not have understood the meaning of "loquacious" but that did not stop
nst online 2010
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A quote from Paula Giddings portrays Obama similarly: "That Barack Obama would choose for his life partner a nearly six-foot-tall, incredibly smart, loquacious lioness of a woman told us virtually all we needed to know about his fundamental character -- and the way he felt about us."
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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A quote from Paula Giddings portrays Obama similarly: "That Barack Obama would choose for his life partner a nearly six-foot-tall, incredibly smart, loquacious lioness of a woman told us virtually all we needed to know about his fundamental character -- and the way he felt about us."
Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010
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Among the road blocks, there are, for starters, the numerous theories -- highly loquacious in cyberspace -- that contend not only that flu vaccination is overtly dangerous, but that there is a systematic effort to delude the public about those dangers.
David Katz, M.D.: What to Do About Flu? Get Vaccinated M.D. David Katz 2010
plethora commented on the word loquacious
Viktor's more of a physical being.
April 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word loquacious
Loquacious I am.
April 20, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word loquacious
"His mother, whom drink had made loquacious..."
-- Cordwainer Smith
August 15, 2008
bookhling commented on the word loquacious
Am I... Loquacious?
August 18, 2008
tylertaylor commented on the word loquacious
I wish people would stop linking to the word they are discussing.
September 8, 2008
reesetee commented on the word loquacious
Try to ignore it, then.
September 8, 2008
tybee commented on the word loquacious
And so my guilt ridden conscience begs forgiveness from His Loquaciousness for possibly inadvertently contributing to the loss of His train of thought.
January 25, 2009
promette commented on the word loquacious
One of my all time favourites.
August 4, 2009
1197555660 commented on the word loquacious
I've always felt this word was too pretentious. This may only be because I hate the sound of it.
July 10, 2011
jodi commented on the word loquacious
"I assure you, Agha, that any previous loquacious tendancies have been curtailed and that now more than ever have I sought for and achieved new standards of brevity." - http://www.delilahdirk.com/ddattl/ch1-011-012.html
July 2, 2012
galaxycat commented on the word loquacious
I just love this word....
September 4, 2019