unloquacious
unloquacious adjective: not loquacious, having little to say.
Adjective
unloquacious (comparative more unloquacious, superlative most unloquacious)
- Not loquacious, having little to say.
- Between two such unloquacious persons, dialogue was naturally slow at first, but they had a long drive before them.1890, George Gissing, The Emancipated, London: Richard, Bentley & Son, Volume I, Part I, Chapter 5, pp. 180-181
- The Arab odd-job boy finished his watering and silently returned to the house. Like that young Hardcastle, Freddy thought. Like Hardcastle, the gardener’s boy of Freddy’s youth, who had moved back and forth, remotely attending to things, unloquacious, unsmiling, totally unwilling to conspire in...1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 3
- Synonyms:
- untalkative
Synonyms of unloquacious
Forms of unloquacious
| comparative | more unloquacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unloquacious |
Origin of unloquacious
From un- + loquacious.
Words formed from unloquacious
Questions about unloquacious
- What does unloquacious mean?
- Unloquacious means not loquacious, having little to say.
- What part of speech is unloquacious?
- Unloquacious is an adjective.
Words near unloquacious in the dictionary
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