'Garrulous' definitions:
Definition of 'garrulous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]
Definition of 'Garrulous'
From: GCIDE
- Garrulous \Gar"ru*lous\, a. [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. ? voice, ? to speak, sing. Cf. Call.]
- 1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. [1913 Webster]
- The most garrulous people on earth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
- Syn: Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious.
- Usage: A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his dotage is garrulous. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'garrulous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all jaw,
- blabbing,
- candid,
- chatty,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- effusive,
- expansive,
- flip,
- fluent,
- frank,
- gabby,
- gassy,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- long-winded,
- loose-tongued,
- loquacious,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- overtalkative,
- prattling,
- prolix,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- talkative,
- talky,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy