Loquacious Meaning and Usage

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Meaning:

Adjective

- speaking; expressive; “easily the most loquacious play of the season.”
- apt to blab and disclose secrets.
- given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous; “a loquacious dinner guest.”

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Derivatives:

loquaciously - adverb
loquaciousness – noun
loquacity – noun
loquent - adjective

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Synonyms:
voluble, gabby, talkative, talky, babbling, chattering, chatty, fluent, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, wordy, yacking

Antonyms:
quiet, restrained, reticent, silent, subdued, taciturn

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Some examples:

1. The twins are quite different: one is taciturn and the other is loquacious.

2. We want to keep today's meeting short, so I may interrupt anyone who becomes too loquacious.

3. 'When I was young,' she continued loquaciously, 'I used to do all sorts of naughty things'

4. She was having difficulty ending the conversation with her loquacious neighbor.

5. The meeting went on for hours, accommodating loquacious bores who were each allowed their say.

6. One of the students is very loquacious that she's disrupting the class, so she got detention.

7. Molly was such a reticent child but since starting school she has become positively loquacious.

8. Girls are often more loquacious than guys; they really love talking!

9. Though she was normally vivacious, her grief made the woman oddly silent and self-contained, hardly her usual loquacious self.

10. The staff knew the meeting would be long because the administrator was in a loquacious mood.

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Did you know?
The source of this word is "loqui," a Latin verb meaning "to speak." Other words descended from "loqui" include "colloquial," "eloquent," "soliloquy," and "ventriloquism."

loquacious means very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language

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Some more examples:

1. She was naturally loquacious, which was a problem in situations in which listening was more important than talking.

2. My blind date last night didn’t go very well; she was quite loquacious and wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise.

3. The doctor was really loquacious and wouldn't let me ask a question, so I ended up not knowing what the problem was.

4. She is very loquacious and can speak on the phone for hours.

5. Instead of being her normal, loquacious self, Sheila barely spoke to anyone at dinner.

6. Avoid becoming involved with loquacious politicians lest you get caught in a discourse from which you have difficulty extricating yourself.

7. He was not effusive, loquacious, and bibulous like his brother, Mark.

8. Peter’s loquacious good-humour infected everyone.

9. The students were quite loquacious after the music program.

10. Bob is a loquacious spokesman for his company, an easygoing speaker with a tendency to ramble on for about ten minutes longer than his audience wants to listen.

11. Siamese cats are known for their loquacity, even though what they say is not said in words.

12. A group of hens exhibits loquacity by almost constant clucking.

13. "To the Dark Tower?” Roland asked. Susannah realized it was the first time the gunslinger had actually spoken to the loquacious ghost in the machine below Lud.

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