garrulous

adjective

1 a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie:

talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, long-winded, chatty, chattery, chattering, gossipy, gossiping, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative;

informal mouthy, gabby, gassy, windy, talky, yacking, big-mouthed, with the gift of the gab, having kissed the Blarney Stone;

British, informal wittering, able to talk the hind legs off a donkey, gobby;

rare multiloquent, multiloquous.

▷antonyms taciturn; reticent.

2 his garrulous and unreliable reminiscences:

long-winded, wordy, verbose, prolix, lengthy, prolonged;

rambling, wandering, maundering, meandering, digressive, diffuse, discursive, periphrastic;

gossipy, chatty;

informal windy, gassy.

▷antonyms concise.

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See talkative.