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Definition: Loquacious |
LoquaciousAdjective1. Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loquacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression loquax, -acis, talkative, from loqui to speak; compare Greek for to rattle, shriek, shout.]. (references) |
Synonyms: LoquaciousSynonyms: chatty (adj), gabby (adj), garrulous (adj), talkative (adj), talky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking. |
Adjective: loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Loquacious |
| English words defined with "loquacious": babbler ♦ chatterbox, chatterer ♦ garrulously ♦ Inaniloquous ♦ Linguacious, Long-tongued, loquaciously ♦ Multiloquous ♦ Polyloquent, prater ♦ Renable ♦ Speechful, spouter ♦ talkatively, talkily. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "loquacious": LONG TONGUED. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "loquacious": Ventriloquous. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The more loquacious Thenardier was, the more dumb was Jean Valjean |
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| "Loquacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Loquacious" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
loquacious | 12 |
define loquacious | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "loquacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | muhabetçi, gojëlëshuar (back-biting, Gabby, slanderous), fjalëshumë (garrulous, talkative, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهذار (gabby, garrulous, prattler, prattling), ثرثار (babbler, babbling, big-mouthed, braggart, bragging, chatterbox, garrulous, gossipy, loudmouth, loudmouthed, prattler, talkative, talking). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бъбрив (chatty, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, long winded, mouthy, talkative, voluble), приказлив (gossipy, long-tongued, talkative, voluble). (various references) | |
Chinese | 譅 (talkative). (various references) | |
Czech | upovídaný (garrulous, long-tongued, talkative, verbose). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرگو (Blabbermouth, Prolix, Talkative, Verbose), پرحرف (Blowhard, Chatty, Garrulous, Outspoken, Rattletrap, Talkative, Voluble), وراج (Blabber, Blabbermouth, Chatty, Loudmouthed, Talkative). (various references) | |
Finnish | suulas (garrulous, talkative), puhelias (talkative). (various references) | |
French | bavard (long winded). (various references) | |
German | geschwätzig (blithering, chatty, gabby, garrulous, gossiping, gossipy, loquaciously, talkative). (various references) | |
Greek | πολύλογοσ (chatty, talkative, verbalizer, verbose, voluble, wordy), φλύαροσ (babbler, blabber, chatty, gabbler, garrulous, gushy, jabberer, prattler, talker, tattler, tattletale, tittle-tattler, twaddler, verbalist, wordy, yapping), φλύαρος (talkative). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "בר י (garrulous, talkative, windy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fecsegõ (blab, blabber, driveller, Gabby, long-tongued, magpie, prattler), beszédes (affable, chatty, communicative, conversational, expansive, talkative, talking, voluble, yakky), bõbeszédû (garrulous, long winded, talkative, tattler, verbose, voluble, wordy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | suka berbicara, iseng (difficult, troublesome). (various references) | |
Italian | loquace (chattily, conversational, eloquent, Gabby, garrulous, talkative, voluble), lingwacciuto (chatty, loudmouth), verboso (circumlocutory, diffusely, roundabout, talkative, verbose, wordy). (various references) | |
Manx | tutleragh (chatty, gossip, gossipy, tattling), tagglooagh, perkinagh (interfering, officious, pragmatical, prating, saucy), gooagh (sonant, vocal, vocalic, voiced, wordy), focklagh (declaratory, diffuse, expansive, garrulous, oral, verbose, voluble, wordy), chengagh (lingual, linguistic, tongued), caayntagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oquaciouslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | loquaz (chatty, curling, garrulous, glib, mouthy, verbose, voluble), tagarela (babbler, blab, bletherskite, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, clat, gabbler, gabby, garrulous, jay, milk-and-water, prater, talkative, tattler, telltale), falador (big mouth, blithering, cackler, circumlocutional, gabbler, gassy, hot-air, leaky, long-winded, talkative, talker, talking). (various references) | |
Romanian | vorbãreţ (chatterbox, conversational, garrulous, mouthy, talker, telltale). (various references) | |
Russian | словоохотливый (gabby, talkative), говорливый (voluble), журчащий (garrulous, murmurous), болтливый (blithering, chatty, gabby, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, hot air, long-tongued, mouthy, talkative, talking, windy). (various references) | |
Scottish | labhrach, briathrach (wordy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | govorljiv (communicable, copious, garrulous, long winded, talkative, voluble, wordy), brbljiv (blithering, chatty, gabby, gossipy, long-tongued). (various references) | |
Spanish | locuaz (chatty, conversational, gabble, talkative, voluble). (various references) | |
Swedish | pratsam (chatty, conversational, long-tongued, talkative), pratig (gassy, gossipy, verbose). (various references) | |
Thai | พู"มาก (คำที่เป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, chatty, gabbler, Gabby, garrulous, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talkative, talky, voluble, windbag, windjammer), dilli (glib, talkative, tongued, voluble). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy), дзюркотливий (babbling, garrulous, murmurous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nói nhiều (garrulous, long-tongued), ba hoa líu lo. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymddiddan.gar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | loquacitatem, loquax, loquax, loquacis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loquacious": loquaciously, loquaciousness, loquaciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Loquacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: laquacious, lequacious, liquacious, Locascio, locquacious, locuacious, loguacious, loqacious, loqiacious, loquaceous, loquacios, loquaicious, loquaious, loquascious, loquasious, loquatious, loqucious, loquicious, loquocious, olquacious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "loquacious" (pronounced lōkwā"shus) |
| 4 | -ā" sh u s | audacious, capacious, efficacious, fallacious, flirtatious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, ostentatious, predaceous, salacious, sebaceous, spacious, tenacious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, auspicious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, ferocious, fictitious, fractious, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, seditious, semiprecious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vicious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-o-q-s-u-u" | |
-4 letters: caulis, coulis, oculus, oscula, quails, social. | |
-5 letters: aulic, calos, cauls, coals, coils, colas, cools, laics, locos, locus, louis, luaus, oculi, olios, quail, quais, quasi, salic, sulci, usual. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-o-q-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: loquaciously. | |
+4 letters: loquaciousness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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