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Definition of garrulous in English: garrulousadjective ˈɡar(j)ʊləsˈɡɛr(j)ələs Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. （尤指对琐事）饶舌的，多嘴的 Example sentencesExamples - This debate engaged all but the most garrulous of the chattering classes rather less than the issue of how many angels can stand on the point of a pin.
- A garrulous former pharmacist from Minnesota, he became the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
- They are basically warm people, albeit a bit garrulous at times with some who profess, quite irritatingly, to be the all-knowing type.
- Being a rather open, garrulous fellow myself, I was impressed.
- The garrulous storeowner sometimes cut up summer sausage and cheese and joined us on the porch where we tilted back frosty green soda bottles and solved the problems of the world.
- He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
- However, he can be garrulous on films, capitalism and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
- Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.
- The check-in assistant seemed to be in a particularly garrulous mood, chatting with his colleague while he printed out the boarding card.
- He introduces a character from his last novel, the garrulous, difficult ‘literary novelist’ Elizabeth.
- Usually this involves a few perfunctory sentences but yesterday he was feeling unusually garrulous and it took me a while to get away from him.
- Having a topic of conversation banned must be a particular strain for someone as garrulous as him.
- On the first floor, I see a crowd of garrulous men who've decided there's more to life than watching sports in the living room.
- Maybe, as in the past, the garrulous president's words were nothing more than political grandstanding.
- If I'm garrulous, it means I'm procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
- Tomorrow, high school playgrounds all over Scotland will again resonate with the sound of garrulous teenagers.
- He is the type not of the charmingly nutty but of the exhaustingly garrulous professor.
- But when I asked him for his opinion of missile-defense programs, the garrulous old scientist suddenly clammed up.
Synonyms talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, long-winded, chatty, chattery, chattering, gossipy, gossiping, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative informal mouthy, gabby, gassy, windy, talky, yacking, big-mouthed, with the gift of the gab, having kissed the Blarney Stone British informal wittering, able to talk the hind legs off a donkey, gobby rare multiloquent, multiloquous long-winded, wordy, verbose, prolix, lengthy, prolonged rambling, wandering, maundering, meandering, digressive, diffuse, discursive, periphrastic gossipy, chatty informal windy, gassy
Derivativesadverbˈɡar(j)ʊləsliˈɡɛr(j)ələsli These six, some more garrulously than others, explain themselves to his camera and are elaborated on by the indulgent Marton. Example sentencesExamples - He also garrulously and somewhat incoherently attacked the media, accusing them to have conspired against him, in order to get him into the Chancellery.
- Her father was a sailor and a garrulously mean man.
- She speaks garrulously about her youth as a wealthy English-girl and how she hates aristocracy and never wanted to marry.
- Dressed off-camera in a hooded top, he talks garrulously, leaping irreverently from topic to topic, wincing when he remembers the vituperative tenor of the reviews received by his last book, Rembrandt's Eyes, published last year.
nounˈɡar(j)ʊləsnəsˈɡɛr(j)ələsnəs Unlike the signal spareness of his works, he is anyway inclined to garrulousness in conversation - a characteristic as excruciating on the page as it may be endearing in the flesh. Example sentencesExamples - Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side.
- The problem with Christmas parties isn't that you know everybody at them - it's that you become overexcited and incline towards garrulousness.
- It seems to me the net encourages garrulousness, incoherence and drivel and I don't want to add to it.
- Their garrulousness surprised him, although he thought that this, too, could have a certain pathological quality.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin garrulus (from garrire 'to chatter, prattle') + -ous. Definition of garrulous in US English: garrulousadjectiveˈɡer(y)ələsˈɡɛr(j)ələs Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. （尤指对琐事）饶舌的，多嘴的 Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man 波洛尼厄斯被描绘成一个饶舌的蠢老头。 Example sentencesExamples - Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- Having a topic of conversation banned must be a particular strain for someone as garrulous as him.
- The check-in assistant seemed to be in a particularly garrulous mood, chatting with his colleague while he printed out the boarding card.
- If I'm garrulous, it means I'm procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
- The garrulous storeowner sometimes cut up summer sausage and cheese and joined us on the porch where we tilted back frosty green soda bottles and solved the problems of the world.
- He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
- He introduces a character from his last novel, the garrulous, difficult ‘literary novelist’ Elizabeth.
- This debate engaged all but the most garrulous of the chattering classes rather less than the issue of how many angels can stand on the point of a pin.
- They are basically warm people, albeit a bit garrulous at times with some who profess, quite irritatingly, to be the all-knowing type.
- Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
- Usually this involves a few perfunctory sentences but yesterday he was feeling unusually garrulous and it took me a while to get away from him.
- He is the type not of the charmingly nutty but of the exhaustingly garrulous professor.
- Maybe, as in the past, the garrulous president's words were nothing more than political grandstanding.
- He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.
- Being a rather open, garrulous fellow myself, I was impressed.
- But when I asked him for his opinion of missile-defense programs, the garrulous old scientist suddenly clammed up.
- A garrulous former pharmacist from Minnesota, he became the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
- However, he can be garrulous on films, capitalism and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
- Tomorrow, high school playgrounds all over Scotland will again resonate with the sound of garrulous teenagers.
- On the first floor, I see a crowd of garrulous men who've decided there's more to life than watching sports in the living room.
Synonyms talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, long-winded, chatty, chattery, chattering, gossipy, gossiping, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative long-winded, wordy, verbose, prolix, lengthy, prolonged
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin garrulus (from garrire ‘to chatter, prattle’) + -ous. |