Garrulous

Word GARRULOUS
Character 9
Hyphenation gar ru lous
Pronunciations /ˈɡæɹ.jʊ.ləs/

Definitions and meanings of "Garrulous"

What do we mean by garrulous?

Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative. adjective

Wordy and rambling. adjective

Talkative; prating; loquacious; specifically, given to talking much and with much minuteness and repetition of unimportant or trivial details.

Synonyms Loquacious, etc. (see talkative); prattling, babbling.

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. adjective

Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds. adjective

Excessively or tiresomely talkative. adjective

Excessively wordy and rambling. adjective

Full of trivial conversation adjective

Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

(of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

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The word "garrulous" in example sentences

Miss Letitia presided over the table in garrulous majesty. ❋ Unknown (1910)

"He might almost have been called garrulous," Pamela agreed. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The general isn't what you'd call a garrulous man. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Adrian is not what one would call a garrulous person at the best of times. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)

Stanley Smith, a Philadelphia lawyer, called his garrulous group to order in the Penn Athletic Club one night last week. ❋ Unknown (2011)

All this time the poor creature was discussing with herself as to whether she had disobeyed orders, in a kind of garrulous way that made me fear much for her capability of retaining anything secret if she was questioned. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Why GM Matters excels when Holstein draws on the extensive access he was given to GM product executives such as garrulous Vice-Chairman Robert A. Lutz or designer Bob Boniface. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Of course we haven't encouraged your talking much up to this time, and you don't strike me as a very rapid fire speaker, not exactly what is called garrulous, you know. ❋ Charles Monroe Sheldon (1901)

"hearing and telling the latest news" (no undignified or improper mode of recreation in a city where newspapers were unknown), whilst they are condemned as "garrulous," "frivolous," "full of curiosity," and ❋ Unknown (1852)

Mark – the garrulous would-be sitcom writer I unwisely kissed – has suggested a day out: a trip to a stately home, then tea in a pretty village a short walk away. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Those cuts had the effect of improving a powerful but enervatingly garrulous play. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Marion Bailey is unforgettable as an unquenchably garrulous gusher who never stops chattering about her own vivaciously active social life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A man with shaking hands keeps shards of a garrulous mirror like fallen stars ,works them over and over, trying to understand, piece together broken eggshell of her face. ❋ Heather Fowler (2011)

The whiskey made him more garrulous as he recounted tales of his exploits. ❋ Michael Gillan Maxwell (2011)

The boy departed, and back came the prime minister, perturbed, ill at ease, and garrulous with apologetic explanation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I realize this may seem a bit premature but Oscar´s garrulous and somewhat overwrought descriptions of pedestrian urban outback places of little note elsewhere in The Republic has earned him Dawg´s admiration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A garrulous performer, Vic was one of a small collection of satchel-toting prop comics who tended to use his powers for good... and the props were often just a side dish to his rollicking and sometimes corny jokes and observations. ❋ Marc Hershon (2011)

This garrulous account of the visit, with its scarifyingly racist coda, appeared on the front page of the Gippsland Times, on Thursday, May 16, 1901: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The following garrulous, unsigned, single-paragraph article about my great-grandfather, entitled “Mr. John William Trumble,” appeared on the front page of Cricket, Vol. 5, No. 119, on Thursday, May 27, 1886: ❋ Unknown (2009)

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