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loquacious

/loʊˈkweɪʃəs/

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What does loquacious mean?

adjective

  1. Talkative; chatty.

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IPA pronunciation

/loʊˈkweɪʃəs/

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He is dignified, intelligent, and, though not loquacious, never at a loss for a topic of conversation.
Isaac Taylor HeadlandCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleProject Gutenberg ebook #523
“Let us be doing something,” was his oblique mode of rebuking the loquacious and admonishing the idle.
Samuel SmilesSelf Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and PerseveranceProject Gutenberg ebook #935
More book examples (3)
If Mrs. Hudson had been loquacious and vulgar, he would have borne even a less valid persecution with greater fortitude.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelm’d, Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge Bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli’d.
John MiltonParadise LostProject Gutenberg ebook #20
Peace had the modesty and reticence of the sincere artist; Butler the loquacious vanity of the literary or forensic coxcomb.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446