garrulous
UK/ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs//ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/
garrulous adjective: excessively or tiresomely talkative.
Adjective
garrulous (comparative more garrulous, superlative most garrulous)
- Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
- She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.1984 Dec, James Atlas, “A Modern Whitman”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- chatty, talkative, long-winded, loquacious, tonguey, voluble, chattering, chattery, effusive, gabby
- Excessively wordy and rambling.
- Synonyms:
- bombastic, rambling, wordy, circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole
garrulous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
garrulous in Tamil
- excessively wordy and rambling
- வாயாடி vāyāṭi
garrulous in Urdu
- باتونی, گپی, کثیر الکلام
garrulous in Bengali
- অত্যধিক কথা বলা, বাচাল
garrulous in Malayalam
- അതിഭാഷണമായ, അധികം സംസാരിക്കുന്ന, വാചകമടിക്കുന്ന
More languagesFewer languages
- garrulous in Kannada
- ಹರಟುವ, ಅತಿ ಮಾತನಾಡುವ, ವಾಚಾಳಿಯಾದ
- garrulous in Sanskrit
- वग्नु vagnú
- garrulous in Indonesian
- cerewet, pembual, banyak omong
Synonyms of garrulous
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Forms of garrulous
| comparative | more garrulous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most garrulous |
Origin of garrulous
Adapted borrowing of Latin garrulus (“talkative”) + -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”).
Words formed from garrulous
Questions about garrulous
- What does garrulous mean?
- Garrulous means excessively or tiresomely talkative.
- What is garrulous in Tamil?
- Garrulous in Tamil is வாயாடி (vāyāṭi). See Garrulous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is garrulous?
- Garrulous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce garrulous?
- Garrulous is pronounced /ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/ (UK).
Words near garrulous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: garrulous (page history and authors); garrulous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garrulous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garrulous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garrulous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वग्नु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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