GARRULOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garrulous mean? 

• GARRULOUS (adjective)
  The adjective GARRULOUS has 1 sense:

1. full of trivial conversation

  Familiarity information: GARRULOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARRULOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of trivial conversation

Synonyms:

chatty; gabby; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky

Context example:

kept from her housework by gabby neighbors

Similar:

voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)

Derivation:

garrulity; garrulousness (the quality of being wordy and talkative)

 Context examples 

I was in the bar, and a garrulous landlord was giving me all that I wanted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember that during our short visit we found the vicar garrulous, but his lodger strangely reticent, a sad-faced, introspective man, sitting with averted eyes, brooding apparently upon his own affairs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The event of the day—that is, the return of Diana and Mary—pleased him; but the accompaniments of that event, the glad tumult, the garrulous glee of reception irked him: I saw he wished the calmer morrow was come.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened until it became less and less real even to him and he could tell it no longer and Myrtle Wilson's tragic achievement was forgotten.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)