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hyperverbal

hyperverbal adjective: highly verbal; tending to talk very much.

Adjective

hyperverbal (comparative more hyperverbal, superlative most hyperverbal)

  1. Highly verbal; tending to talk very much.
    • If it haunts him, it’s going to haunt his alter ego. Mr. Leary, 51, who is also a producer of the show, isn’t Tommy Gavin, but the resemblance is no accident: both men are Irish-Americans, lapsed Catholics, sometime hockey players and prone to hyperverbal explosions of caustic wit.2009 April 5, Mark Harris, “Fifth Alarm for That Haunted Fireman”, in New York Times

Forms of hyperverbal

comparativemore hyperverbal
superlativemost hyperverbal

Origin of hyperverbal

From hyper- + verbal.

Questions about hyperverbal

What does hyperverbal mean?
Hyperverbal means highly verbal; tending to talk very much.
What part of speech is hyperverbal?
Hyperverbal is an adjective.

Words near hyperverbal in the dictionary

  1. hyperventilations
  2. hyperventilative
  3. hyperventilator
  4. hyperventilators
  5. hyperventilatory
  6. hyperverbal
  7. hypervertex
  8. hypervertices
  9. hypervesiculating
  10. hypervesiculation
  11. hypervibration

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