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Adjective

garrulous (comparative more garrulous, superlative most garrulous)

• Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
  • ✤ Synonyms: chatty, talkative, long-winded, loquacious, tonguey, voluble; see also Thesaurus: talkative
  • ✤ She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.¹
  • ✤ Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions…, his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.²
• (literature, theater) Excessively wordy and rambling.
  • ✤ Synonyms: bombastic, rambling, wordy; see also Thesaurus: verbose

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Latin garrulus (“talkative”) +‎ -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”).³

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.jʊ.ləs/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/, /ˈɡɛɹ.jə.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.ə.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.jə.ləs/
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Footnotes

1. 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray: ↩

2. 1984 Dec, James Atlas, “A Modern Whitman”, in The Atlantic: ↩

3. “garrulous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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