Loquacious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr.
     loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.]
     1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
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              Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. --Dryden.


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     2. Speaking; expressive. [R.] --J. Philips.
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     3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
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     Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See {Garrulous}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loquacious
       adj : full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by
             gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous},
             {talkative}, {talky}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "loquacious":
     all jaw, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, effusive,
     expansive, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib,
     gossipy, gregarious, gushy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-tongued,
     multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative, prolix, smooth,
     sociable, talkative, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy