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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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