logorrheic

English

Alternative forms

• logorrhoeic
• logorrhœic

Etymology

Etymology tree

English logorrhea

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English logorrheic

From logorrhea + -ic.

Adjective

logorrheic (comparative more logorrheic, superlative most logorrheic)

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words

   It was a long, logorrheic tale.

   • 1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity‎^[1], page 495:

     The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.

   • 1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 December 2008:

     In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […]

   • 2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post‎^[3]:

     I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.

Synonyms

• talkative, verbose
• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Derived terms

• logorrheically

Translations

having excessive flow of words

• Dutch: praatzuchtig
• French: logorrhéique (fr) m or f
• Italian: logorroico (it) m, ciarliero (it) m, prolisso (it) m, loquace (it) m or f, verboso (it) m