logorrheic

logorrheic

English

Alternative forms

• logorrhoeic
• logorrhœic

Etymology

logorrhea +‎ -ic

Adjective

logorrheic (comparative more logorrheic, superlative most logorrheic)

1. 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 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”, in An Inarticulate Kickoff‎:

     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
• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Translations

having excessive flow of words

Dutch: praatzuchtig

Italian: logorroico (it) m, ciarliero (it) m, prolisso (it) m, loquace (it) m or f, verboso (it) m