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The word of the day is ‘garrulous’.
The word is an Adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form
It means:
1. Talkative
2. Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
3. With the gift of the gab
4. Big-mouthed
1. I shut up; and from that hour to this, I never was ‘garrulous’ again.
2. Through these garrulous, versatile commentators his horizon is vastly extended.
3. I was in the bar, and a garrulous landlord was giving me all that I wanted
4. “I must find my friend,” he said, cutting the garrulous man short.
5. The Dublin people were gregarious and garrulous, and he was solitary and reflective.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
chatty, glib, loquacious, voluble, babbling, blabbermouth, chattering, effusive, flap jaw, gabby, gossiping, gushing, long-winded, loose-lipped
loose-tongued, motormouth, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy
running on at the mouth, verbose, wind-bag, windy, wordy, yakkity, yakky, loquacious, chattery, gossipy, babbling, blathering, jabbering, expansive, forthcoming, conversational, communicative, mouthy, gassy, windy, talky, yacking, wittering, gobby, multiloquent, multiloquous, prolix, lengthy, prolonged, rambling, wandering, maundering, meandering, digressive, diffuse, discursive, periphrastic, etc.
Some antonyms of this word of the day are: quiet, silent, mum, reserved, still, untalkative, etc.
Quotation:
The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
Dorothea Lange
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