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garrulous

UK/ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/US/ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,918 of 15,258neutral

Garrulous means talking far too much about trivial things. A garrulous neighbour, garrulous and cheerful, garrulous over dinner.

The triviality is the complaint, since somebody garrulous is not merely talkative but talkative about nothing. The Latin behind it means to chatter and imitates the sound.

Definitions of garrulous

  1. 1adjectivegarrulousTalking far too much about trivial things.C2

    “The garrulous old man at the bus stop talked about the weather for twenty minutes.”

garrulous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin garrulus comes from garrire, to chatter, which imitates the sound.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *ǵeh₂r-

  2. English, today

    garrulous

Built from

  • garriō · Latin — to chatter

garrulus + -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

garrulous in the wild

  • The name jay derives from the bird's noisy, garrulous nature and has been applied to many other birds of the same family, which are also mostly gregarious.

    Blue jay

  • The album features bluegrass, Americana and country music along with Costello's familiar garrulous lyrics.

    Secret, Profane & Sugarcane

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.