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 or chatty, 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

[From Latin loquāx, loquāc-, from loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin loquacis, ‘talkative’, from loqui, ‘to speak’.

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Examples

  • The fascist leader characteristically indulges in loquacious statements about himself.

    Early Monday « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Dangerous and Strange 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • KOTA BARU: She may not have understood the meaning of "loquacious" but that did not stop

    nst online 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • Viktor's more of a physical being.

    April 1, 2008

  • Loquacious I am.

    April 20, 2008

  • "His mother, whom drink had made loquacious..."

    -- Cordwainer Smith

    August 15, 2008

  • Am I... Loquacious?

    August 18, 2008

  • I wish people would stop linking to the word they are discussing.

    September 8, 2008

  • Try to ignore it, then.

    September 8, 2008

  • 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

  • One of my all time favourites.

    August 4, 2009

  • I've always felt this word was too pretentious. This may only be because I hate the sound of it.

    July 10, 2011

  • "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

  • I just love this word....

    September 4, 2019