loquacious

English

WOTD – 11 January 2007

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loquāx (“talkative”) + -cious.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/
• (US) enPR: lō-kwāʹshəs, IPA^(key): /loʊˈkweɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)

1. Talkative; chatty.
   • 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:

     On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.

Synonyms

• chatty, talkative, garrulous
• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Antonyms

• laconic, quiet, reserved, taciturn

Derived terms

• loquaciously
• loquaciousness
• scribacious
• unloquacious

Related terms

• locution
• loquacity

Translations

talkative, chatty

• Aromanian: limbutsescu, limbar, zburyearcu, lafãzan
• Bulgarian: бъбрив (bg) (bǎbriv)
• Catalan: loquaç (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧嘴／贫嘴 (zh) (pínzuǐ), 多嘴 (zh) (duōzuǐ)

• Czech: povídavý
• Dutch: praatziek (nl), praatgraag (nl)
• Finnish: puhelias (fi), suulas (fi)
• French: loquace (fr)
• German: gesprächig (de), redselig (de), geschwätzig (de), schwatzhaft (de)
• Greek: ομιλητικός (el) (omilitikós)

  Ancient: λάλος (lálos), πολύλογος (polúlogos), τανύγλωσσος (tanúglōssos)

• Irish: teangach, béalach
• Italian: loquace (it)
• Japanese: 多弁な (ja) (たべんな, taben na)
• Latin: loquāx (la), garrulus
• Macedonian: збо́рлив (zbórliv), благогла́голив (blagoglágoliv)
• Maori: tātākī, pukukōrero, kōtetetete
• Mongolian: ам задгай (am zadgaj)
• Norwegian: plaprende
• Polish: gadatliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: loquaz (pt)
• Romanian: vorbăreț (ro), limbut (ro), flecar (ro), gureș (ro), guraliv (ro)
• Russian: словоохо́тливый (ru) (slovooxótlivyj), разгово́рчивый (ru) (razgovórčivyj), говорли́вый (ru) (govorlívyj), болтли́вый (ru) (boltlívyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: beulach, bruithneach, labhairteach, gobach. cabach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: причљив

  Roman: pričljiv (sh)

• Spanish: locuaz (es)
• Swedish: pratsam (sv)
• Turkish: konuşgan n, geveze (tr)
• Ukrainian: балакучий (uk) m (balakučyj), говіркий m (hovirkyj)
• Volapük: spikotälik (vo), spikodiälik