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lo⋅qua⋅cious

[loh-kwey-shuhs]
–adjective
1. talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
2. characterized by excessive talk; wordy: easily the most loquacious play of the season.

Origin:
1660–70; loquaci(ty) + -ous


lo⋅qua⋅cious⋅ly, adverb
lo⋅qua⋅cious⋅ness, noun


1. verbose, voluble. See talkative.
lo·qua·cious   (lō-kwā'shəs)   
adj.  Very talkative; garrulous.

[From Latin loquāx, loquāc-, from loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]
lo·qua'cious·ly adv., lo·qua'cious·ness, lo·quac'i·ty (lō-kwās'ĭ-tē) n.

Loquacious

Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.]

1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.

Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. --Dryden.

2. Speaking; expressive. [R.] --J. Philips.

3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.

loquacious 
1667, from stem of L. loquax (gen. loquacis) "talkative," from loqui "to speak," of unknown origin. Loquacity is much earlier (12c.), from L. loquacitatem "talkativeness," from loquax.
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