Garrulous Meaning and Usage

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Meaning:

Adjective
- talking too much about generally insignificant things;
- annoyingly talkative;
- rambling talk; tiresomely talkative. “a garrulous speech.”

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Derivatives:
Garrulously - adverb
Garrulousness - noun
Garrulity - noun

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Use garrulous in a sentence:

1. Teenaged girls tend to be more garrulous than their male counterparts.

2. Most company sales meetings are dominated by garrulous persons who love to hear themselves speak.

3. Claude pretended to be asleep so he could avoid his garrulous seatmate, a self-proclaimed expert on bonsai cultivation.

4. The game was over. "Great Scott! What a fluke!" cried the silent one, becoming quite garrulous at the miracle.

5. The pawnbroker’s widow was a garrulous old woman who loved to gossip and hear herself talk.

6. Shania is so garrulous she could talk a politician into taking truth serum.

7. She was unable to sleep on the flight because of the garrulous passenger sitting beside her.

8. The garrulous old man repeatedly described his daring, youthful escapades.

9. Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man.

10. The garrulous parakeet distracted its owner with its continuous talking.

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Synonyms:
babbling, chattering, chatty, conversational, diffuse, discursive, effusive, gabby, gossiping, gossipy, gushing, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, mouthy, overlong, prolix, prosy rambling, talkative, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy.

Antonyms:
taciturn, concise, mum, quiet, reserved, silent, still

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Know more:

This word has many near synonyms: talkative (tending to talk a lot), loquacious ("talkative" with a Latin stem), prolix (wordy in speaking or writing), voluble (characterized by rapid speech), glib (speaking or writing with ease, perhaps superficially), verbose (wordy, implying dullness).

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Some more examples:

1. He was so garrulous that he repeated everything many times.

2. Aunt Midge is as garrulous as they come, so be prepared to listen for hours.

3. Myna Bird and her assistant are so garrulous we seldom accomplish anything during office conferences.

4. No one wanted to speak with the garrulous man for fear of being stuck in a long, one-sided conversation.

5. The speech was so garrulous it went over everyone's head

6. His garrulity leads him to frequently misspeak himself.

7. His garrulous nature made me reluctant to answer the phone when he called.

8. The entire Senate fell into a deep slumber as the Senator from Idaho continued his unrelenting, garrulous diatribe on the evils of cow tipping.

9. Students sometimes get in trouble for being garrulous in class and distracting others from the lesson.

10. With a few judicious revisions, a good editor can often transform garrulous writing into elegant prose.


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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.

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