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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessively communicative |
| Synonyms: | articulate, big-mouthed, chattering, chatty, effusive, eloquent, fluent, full of hot air, gabby, garrulous, glib, gossipy, long-winded, loose-lipped, loquacious, loudmouthed, mouthy, multiloquent, prolix, rattling, slick*, smooth*, talky, verbal, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | quiet, reserved, silent, uncommunicative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | communicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | candid, chatty, communicable, conversable, conversational, demonstrative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, forthcoming, frank, garrulous, gushing, loquacious, open, outgoing, talkative, unreserved, voluble |
| Antonyms: | close-mouthed, reserved, reticent, unfriendly, uninformative, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | effusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gushing, profuse |
| Synonyms: | all jaw, big mouthed, demonstrative, ebullient, enthusiastic, expansive, extravagant, exuberant, free-flowing, fulsome, gabby, gushy, lavish, outpouring, overflowing, prolix, talkative, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
| Synonyms: | chatty, cogent, copious, cursive, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluent, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued, smooth, smooth-spoken, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-versed, wordy |
| Antonyms: | effortful, hesitant, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared |
| Main Entry: | glib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slick, smooth-talking |
| Synonyms: | artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble |
| Antonyms: | inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | long-winded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, palaverous, prolix, rambling, talkative, verbose, voluble |
| Main Entry: | verbose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy, long-winded |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking |
| Antonyms: | concise, succinct |
| Main Entry: | blabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gossipy |
| Synonyms: | bigmouthed, chattery, chatty, newsy, taletelling, talkative |
| Main Entry: | smooth-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glib |
| Synonyms: | artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip*, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick*, ready, silver-tongued, slick*, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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