loquacious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lo=qua=cious

CIDE DICTIONARY

loquacious, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. to rattle, shriek, shout.].

•  Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.  [1913 Webster]

  "Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong."  [1913 Webster]
•  Speaking; expressive.  J. Philips.  [1913 Webster]
•  Apt to blab and disclose secrets.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

loquacious, adj.
1 talkative.
2 (of birds or water) chattering, babbling.

Derivative

loquaciously adv. loquaciousness n. loquacity n.

Etymology

L loquax -acis f. loqui talk

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

loquacious

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.