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adj
Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: chatty, talkative, long-winded, loquacious, tonguey, voluble, chattering, chattery, effusive, gabby, garrulous, gobby, logorrheic, motormouth, nattersome, nattery, outspoken, prolix, talksome, talky, verbose, wordy, yakky, yappy
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Excessively wordy and rambling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, literature, media, publishing, theater
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bombastic, rambling, wordy, circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole, sesquipedalian, verbose
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
full of trivial conversation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky
Antonyms: none provided
History
Adapted borrowing of Latin garrulus (“talkative”) + -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”).
Across languages
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
