loquacious
UK/ləʊˈkweɪʃəs//loʊˈkweɪʃəs/
loquacious adjective: talkative; chatty.
Adjective
loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)
- Talkative; chatty.
- 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...1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer
- "[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
- Synonyms:
- chattering, chattery, chatty, effusive, gabby, garrulous, gobby, logorrheic, long-winded, motormouth
loquacious meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
loquacious in Urdu
- loquacious
- مکھر mukhar
loquacious in Bengali
- বাচাল
loquacious in Malayalam
- communicative, talkative, voluble
- വാവദൂക, അധികം സംസാരിക്കുന്ന, ബഹുഭാഷിതനായ, പടപറയുന്ന, വായാടിയായ, വിടുവായുള്ള
loquacious in Kannada
- ವಾಚಾಳಿಯಾದ, ಹರಟೆಮಲ್ಲನಾದ, ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಹರಟುವ, ತುಂಬಾ ಹರಟುವ
Synonyms of loquacious
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Antonyms
Forms of loquacious
| comparative | more loquacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most loquacious |
Origin of loquacious
From Latin loquāx, loquācis (“talkative”) + -ous or from loquacity + -ous, ultimately from Latin loquor + -acious.
Words formed from loquacious
Words that rhyme with loquacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
Questions about loquacious
- What does loquacious mean?
- Loquacious means talkative; chatty.
- What is loquacious in Urdu?
- Loquacious in Urdu is مکھر (mukhar). See Loquacious meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is loquacious?
- Loquacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce loquacious?
- Loquacious is pronounced /ləʊˈkweɪʃəs/ (UK).
Words near loquacious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: loquacious (page history and authors); مکھر (Urdu) (page history and authors); loquacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loquacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); loquacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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