单词 | garrulous |
释义 | garrulous (once / 3222 pages) adj A garrulous person just won’t stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...). Garrulous comes from the Latin word garrire for "chattering or prattling." If someone is garrulous, he doesn't just like to talk; he indulges in talking for talking’s sake — whether or not there’s a real conversation going on. If you discover that you have a garrulous neighbor sitting next to you on the plane, you might just want to feign sleep, unless you really want to hear everything going through his mind for the entire trip. WORD FAMILYgarrulous: garrulity, garrulously, garrulousness+/garrulity: garrulities USAGE EXAMPLESBut plenty of false stories do circulate on Brazil’s garrulous internet. The Guardian(Dec 02, 2016) There are the well-behaved young matrons seated next to their garrulous husbands. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) It was like arriving with a seal of “original product,” and El Diablito, clever and garrulous, quickly parlayed that into a position of power. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) adj full of trivial conversation Syn chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky voluble marked by a ready flow of speech |
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