loquacious

lo·qua·cious

adjective \lō-ˈkwā-shəs\

Definition of LOQUACIOUS

1

: full of excessive talk : wordy

2

: given to fluent or excessive talk : garrulous

— lo·qua·cious·ly adverb

— lo·qua·cious·ness noun

Examples of LOQUACIOUS

1. a loquacious and glib politician
2. the loquacious host of a radio talk show
3. … long-cultivated dislikes and resentments, combined with a general expectation of coming apocalypse. He talked about these topics in a manner that managed to be tight-lipped and loquacious at the same time. —Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 22 & 29 Dec. 2003
4. … the flaw of the genre is not in betraying the loquacious John Williams and the chatty Father Foucquet, but in failing to schedule an interview with the reticent Eunice Williams and the tongue-tied John Hu. —Jill Lepore, Journal of American History, June 2001
5. With a wonderful memory for detail, this talkative woman—who my father said never forgets anything—became truly loquacious. —Joseph A. Amato, Dust, 2000

Origin of LOQUACIOUS

Latin loquac-, loquax, from loqui to speak

First Known Use: 1663

Related to LOQUACIOUS

Synonyms

blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous, talkative, motormouthed, mouthy, talky

Antonyms

closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative

Related Words

communicative, expansive; demonstrative, effusive, gushing; free-spoken, outspoken, unreserved, vocal; articulate, fluent, glib, voluble, well-spoken; gossipy, talebearing, tale-telling; long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy; extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable

Near Antonyms

quiet, shy; mum, mute, silent, speechless, tongue-tied, wordless; evasive, nonvocal, secretive, self-contained; aloof, indrawn, inhibited, introverted, retiring, unsociable, withdrawn

See Synonym Discussion at talkative

Rhymes with LOQUACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious