Pronunciation
/lōˈkwāSHəs/
Meaning
tending to talk a great deal; talkative
Sample Sentences
- Sitting next to a loquacious person at a dinner party can make dinner a real drag
- It was an unusual reaction, she said, for a loquacious president who considered not responding to the media to be “the ultimate sin.” .
- A loquacious advocate is more likely to gain his case than a taciturn one.
Related Words
talkative, garrulous, voluble, over-talkative, long-winded, wordy, verbose, profuse, prolix, effusive, gushing, rambling; communicative; chatty, gossipy, gossiping, chattering, chattery, babbling, blathering, gibbering; informalwith the gift of the gab, having kissed the blarney stone, yakking, big-mouthed, gabby, gassy, talky; raremultiloquent, multiloquous
Further Reading
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loquacious
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/loquacious