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garrulous 音标拼音: [g'ɛrələs] a. 饶舌的,多嘴的,啁啾不休的 饶舌的,多嘴的,啁啾不休的 garrulous adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [synonym: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous}, {loquacious}, {talkative}, {talky}] Garrulous \Gar"ru*lous\, a. [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. ? voice, ? to speak, sing. Cf. {Call}.] 1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. [1913 Webster] The most garrulous people on earth. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller. Syn: {Garrulous}, {Talkative}, {Loquacious}. Usage: A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his dotage is garrulous. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] 34 Moby Thesaurus words for "garrulous":
all jaw, blabbing, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, effusive, expansive, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, long-winded, loose-tongued, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative, prattling, prolix, smooth, sociable, talkative, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy
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