garrulous
adjective
gar·ru·lous
ˈger-ə-ləs 
ˈga-rə-,
also ˈger-yə-
1
: given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
2
: wordy sense 1
garrulous speeches
garrulously
adverb
garrulousness
noun
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Garrulous is a 17th century Latin borrowing that has its origin in garrīre, meaning "to chatter, talk rapidly." That Latin root is probably imitative in origin—that is, it was coined to imitate what it refers to. English has a number of words that are imitative in origin, among them several others that describe ways of talking, such as babble and chatter.
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Examples of garrulous in a Sentence
Salman grew ever more garrulous as the yellow liquid in the bottle went down; Baal couldn't recall when he'd last heard anyone talk up such a storm.
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Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, 1989
To an American reader in 1982, confronted with this garrulous, indefatigably quirky, I'm-just-typing-on-yellow-paper-and-associating-ideas-and-memories prose work of 1936, such a judgment, by a presumably informed person, seems preposterous.
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review, 3 Oct. 1982
He was not garrulous by any means. On the contrary, there was a fine reserve in his manner toward the entire domestic economy of his life which was all that is comprehended by the popular term, gentlemanly.
—Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900
He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
a garrulous boy who was in constant trouble for talking out of turn
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, 1989
To an American reader in 1982, confronted with this garrulous, indefatigably quirky, I'm-just-typing-on-yellow-paper-and-associating-ideas-and-memories prose work of 1936, such a judgment, by a presumably informed person, seems preposterous.
—Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review, 3 Oct. 1982
He was not garrulous by any means. On the contrary, there was a fine reserve in his manner toward the entire domestic economy of his life which was all that is comprehended by the popular term, gentlemanly.
—Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900
He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
a garrulous boy who was in constant trouble for talking out of turn
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The place has been around for over a century and has been run the whole time by the Balzano family, notably the garrulous, charismatic philosopher king, Sunny Balzano, who died in 2016.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
Schulman worked on, among other things, techniques for fine-tuning large language models with human feedback using what’s known as reinforcement learning, an approach that proved key to building a capable and garrulous chatbot like ChatGPT.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
In the days after the protests came the death of former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin, an avuncular and garrulous (if sometimes clownish) leader.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
Schulman worked on, among other things, techniques for fine-tuning large language models with human feedback using what’s known as reinforcement learning, an approach that proved key to building a capable and garrulous chatbot like ChatGPT.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
In the days after the protests came the death of former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin, an avuncular and garrulous (if sometimes clownish) leader.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Garrulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garrulous. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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garrulous
adjective
gar·ru·lous
ˈgar-ə-ləs
: overly talkative
garrulously
adverb
garrulousness
noun
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