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logorrheic

logorrheic adjective: of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words.

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.
    • The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495
    Synonyms:
    talkative, verbose

Examples of logorrheic in a sentence

  • 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 […1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008:
  • 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.2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post:

Synonyms of logorrheic

Forms of logorrheic

comparativemore logorrheic
superlativemost logorrheic
alternative formlogorrhoeic
alternative formlogorrhœic

Origin of logorrheic

From logorrhea + -ic.

Words formed from logorrheic

Questions about logorrheic

What does logorrheic mean?
Logorrheic means of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words.
How do you use logorrheic in a sentence?
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 […
What part of speech is logorrheic?
Logorrheic is an adjective.

Words near logorrheic in the dictionary

  1. logopœia
  2. logopœic
  3. logorrhea
  4. logorrhean
  5. logorrheas
  6. logorrheic
  7. logorrheically
  8. logorrhoea
  9. logorrhoeic
  10. logorrhœa
  11. logorrhœic

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