logorrheic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

logorrhea +‎ -ic

Adjective

logorrheic (comparative more logorrheic, superlative most logorrheic)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
It was a long, logorrheic tale.
- 1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity‎, page 495:
  The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.
- 1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 22 December 2008:
  In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […]
- 2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post‎:
  I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.

Synonyms

talkative, verbose
See also Thesaurus:talkative

Translations

having excessive flow of words

Dutch: praatzuchtig
French: logorrhéique (fr) m or f
Italian: logorroico (it) m, ciarliero (it) m, prolisso (it) m, loquace (it) m or f, verboso (it) m

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