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LOQUACIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does loquacious mean?
• LOQUACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective LOQUACIOUS has 1 sense:
1. full of trivial conversation
Familiarity information: LOQUACIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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:
loquaciousness; loquacity (the quality of being wordy and talkative)
Context examples
I found it not difficult, in the excitement of Mr. Chillip's own brain, under his potations of negus, to divert his attention from this topic to his own affairs, on which, for the next half-hour, he was quite loquacious; giving me to understand, among other pieces of information, that he was then at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house to lay his professional evidence before a Commission of Lunacy, touching the state of mind of a patient who had become deranged from excessive drinking.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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