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overloquacious

overloquacious adjective: excessively loquacious.

Adjective

overloquacious (comparative more overloquacious, superlative most overloquacious)

  1. Excessively loquacious.
    • A salesman should be straightforward and not overloquacious, remembering that it is not the quantity but the quality of talk which counts.1911, “Business and Commerce”, in Henry W[oldmar] Ruoff, editor, The Volume Library: A Concise, Graded Repository of Practical and Cultural Knowledge Designed for Both Instruction and Reference...
    • He said it with such conviction that I suddenly felt very friendly toward him. Overloquacious—but a heart of pure gold!1913 September 27, Edwin Lefèvre, “Without End”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 13, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3

Synonyms of overloquacious

Forms of overloquacious

comparativemore overloquacious
superlativemost overloquacious

Origin of overloquacious

From over- + loquacious.

Words formed from overloquacious

Questions about overloquacious

What does overloquacious mean?
Overloquacious means excessively loquacious.
What part of speech is overloquacious?
Overloquacious is an adjective.

Words near overloquacious in the dictionary

  1. overloose
  2. overloosen
  3. overloosened
  4. overloosening
  5. overloosens
  6. overloquacious
  7. overloquaciousness
  8. overloquacity
  9. overlord
  10. overlorded
  11. overlording

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