garrulous
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adjective \ˈger-ə-ləs, ˈga-rə- also ˈger-yə-\Definition of GARRULOUS
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: given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
See Examples of GARRULOUS
- He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
- <a garrulous boy who was in constant trouble for talking out of turn>
- Salman grew ever more garrulous as the yellow liquid in the bottle went down; Baal couldn't recall when he'd last heard anyone talk up such a storm. —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses,1989
- To an American reader in 1982, confronted with this garrulous, indefatigably quirky, I'm-just-typing-on-yellow-paper-and-associating-ideas-and-memories prose work of l936, such a judgment, by a presumably informed person, seems preposterous. —Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review,3 Oct. 1982
- He was not garrulous by any means. On the contrary, there was a fine reserve in his manner toward the entire domestic economy of his life which was all that is comprehended by the popular term, gentlemanly. —Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie,1900
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Origin of GARRULOUS
Latin garrulus, from garrire to chatter — more at care
First Known Use: circa 1611
Related to GARRULOUS
- Synonyms
- blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, talkative, loquacious, motormouthed, mouthy, talky
- Antonyms
- closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative
See Synonym Discussion at talkative
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