English-Thai Dictionary

garrulous

ADJ พูด เรื่อยเจื้อย  พูดมาก  chatty gabby talkative quiet silent phud-rueai-jueai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GARRULOUS

a.Talkative; prating; as garrulous old age.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GARRULOUS

Gar "ru *lous, a. Etym: [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. Call. ]

 

1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

 

Syn. -- Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

garrulous

gar ru lous |ˈgar (y )ələs ˈɡɛrələs | ▶adjective excessively talkative, esp. on trivial matters: Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man. DERIVATIVES gar ru lous ly adverb, gar ru lous ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin garrulus (from garrire ‘to chatter, prattle ’) + -ous .

 

Oxford Dictionary

garrulous

garrulous |ˈgar (j )ʊləs | ▶adjective excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters: a garrulous cab driver. DERIVATIVES garrulously adverb, garrulousness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin garrulus (from garrire ‘to chatter, prattle ’) + -ous .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

garrulous

garrulous adjective 1 a garrulous old man: talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, chatty, chattering, gossipy; effusive, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative; informal mouthy, gabby, gassy, windy, having the gift of (the ) gab, motormouthed. ANTONYMS taciturn, reticent. 2 his garrulous reminiscences: long-winded, wordy, verbose, prolix, long, lengthy, rambling, wandering, maundering, meandering, digressive, diffuse, discursive; gossipy, chatty; informal windy, gassy. ANTONYMS concise. WORD TOOLKIT See talkative . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

garrulous

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, yacking, big-mouthed, with the gift of the gab, having kissed the Blarney Stone; Brit. informal wittering, able to talk the hind legs off a donkey; 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. WORD TOOLKIT garrulous See talkative . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

garrulous

gar ru lous /ɡǽr (ə )ləs /形容詞 1 おしゃべりな, むだ口をたたく .2 冗漫な .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞