loquacious
very talkative (person)
TRANSLATION
loquacious = geschwätzig, redselig --- GOOGLE INDEXloquacious: approximately 700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The long lunches have been running for the past three years and guest speakers have included such LOQUACIOUS gentlemen as Tommy Tiernan, Jack Charlton and Frankie Dettori.
(The Irish Independent)
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He spent little time answering questions after the game -- an unusual development for one of the nation's most LOQUACIOUS coaches…
(The Montgomery Advertiser)
(The Irish Independent)
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He spent little time answering questions after the game -- an unusual development for one of the nation's most LOQUACIOUS coaches…
(The Montgomery Advertiser)
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loquacious
adjective
- having the habit of talking a lot
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Loquacious (circa 1667) stems from the Latin loquax (genitive loquacis), meaning "talkative," and from loqui "to speak."
According to a 2004 survey of 40,000 non-English speakers in 102 countries, loquacious is one of the 70 most beautiful words in the English language. At the top of the list was "mother."
Mother, passion, smile, love and eternity were the top five choices - but father did not even make it into the list of 70 words. Fantastic, destiny, freedom, liberty and tranquillity rounded out the top 10. Some unusual choices did make the list though, such as peekaboo, flabbergasted, and hen night. Other words to make the top 70 included serendipity, kangaroo and zing.
Chris Wade, director of communications at the British Council, which undertook the survey, said the most favoured choices in the list were all strong, positive words. "All of us have a mother and have a reasonable idea of who that person is, it's one piece of certainty we can have and it's also a very powerful word in a variety of cultures."
(source: BBC News)
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SYNONYMS
articulate, big-mouthed, chatty, effusive, eloquent, fluent, full of hot air, gabby, garrulous, glib, gossipy, long-winded, loose-lipped, loudmouthed, mouthy, multiloquent, rattling, talky, verbal, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy, wordy
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ANTONYMS
silent, uncommunicative buttoned up, clammed up, closemouthed, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, not talkative, quiet, reserved, restrained, reticent, secretive, taciturn, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, zipped
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"You'll find that John is rather loquacious, but he's really very funny."
adjective
- having the habit of talking a lot
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Loquacious (circa 1667) stems from the Latin loquax (genitive loquacis), meaning "talkative," and from loqui "to speak."
According to a 2004 survey of 40,000 non-English speakers in 102 countries, loquacious is one of the 70 most beautiful words in the English language. At the top of the list was "mother."
Mother, passion, smile, love and eternity were the top five choices - but father did not even make it into the list of 70 words. Fantastic, destiny, freedom, liberty and tranquillity rounded out the top 10. Some unusual choices did make the list though, such as peekaboo, flabbergasted, and hen night. Other words to make the top 70 included serendipity, kangaroo and zing.
Chris Wade, director of communications at the British Council, which undertook the survey, said the most favoured choices in the list were all strong, positive words. "All of us have a mother and have a reasonable idea of who that person is, it's one piece of certainty we can have and it's also a very powerful word in a variety of cultures."
(source: BBC News)
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SYNONYMS
articulate, big-mouthed, chatty, effusive, eloquent, fluent, full of hot air, gabby, garrulous, glib, gossipy, long-winded, loose-lipped, loudmouthed, mouthy, multiloquent, rattling, talky, verbal, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy, wordy
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ANTONYMS
silent, uncommunicative buttoned up, clammed up, closemouthed, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, not talkative, quiet, reserved, restrained, reticent, secretive, taciturn, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, zipped
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"You'll find that John is rather loquacious, but he's really very funny."
