Word of the Day: Garrulous

What does garrulous mean?

1. adjective — given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity, pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
2. adjective — wordy

Garrulous in a sentence

a garrulous boy who was in constant trouble for talking out of turn

now that he's in his anecdotage, Grandpa likes to tell garrulous, shaggy-dog accounts of his youthful misadventures

Synonyms of garrulous

Antonyms of garrulous

Origin of garrulous

borrowed from Latin garrulus, from garrīre "to chatter, talk rapidly" (probably of imitative origin) + -ulus, deverbal suffix denoting inclination or repetitive action (going back to Indo-European -l-, participial suffix) -ous

First known use: circa 1611