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garrulous

/gar-uh-luhs, gar-yuh-/US // ˈgær ə ləs, ˈgær yə- //UK // (ˈɡærʊləs) //

唠唠叨叨,唠叨,唠唠叨叨的,贫嘴

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
    • : wordy or diffuse: a garrulous and boring speech.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.talkative

Examples

  • I was lively and loquacious and garrulous and all those sorts of things, and I performed and did stand-up.

  • The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.

  • For this story has not been derived from hacked voicemails, an avaricious doctor, or a garrulous friend.

  • Venezuelans are scratching their heads over the mysterious silence of their ordinarily garrulous leader.

  • In America, the death of an American star is really the occasion for a garrulous, obsessive, round-the-clock denial of death.

  • To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

  • Moreover, he is exceedingly garrulous, and needs a string of words to say yes or no.

  • Frank was staggering, garrulous, laughing a great deal over very small jokes.

  • They are pleasure-loving and garrulous, though this latter trait is not, I suppose, a specially national characteristic.

  • For a time, too, I dropped out of the garrulous literary and journalistic circles I had frequented.