Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blabbermouthed en · ADJ

Etymology

From blabber + mouthed.

Meanings

  1. Talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner.
    • The truth was that all this Freudian sex talk was the preview, a blabbermouthed precursor to all the feckless promiscuity that was to follow in the sixties. 2001, Will Self, How the Dead Live, →ISBN, page 94:
    • Maybe I'll live long enough to see a newspaper reporter depicted on the screen as a gentleman, not a drunken, blabbermouthed, wise-cracking bum. 1947 March 31, Kaspar Monahan, “Show Shops”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 27 Jul 2010, page 12:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most blabbermouthed Degree=Sup lexicographic
more blabbermouthed Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

taciturn (antonym(s) of “talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner”) · discreet (antonym(s) of “talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner”) · tight-lipped (antonym(s) of “talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner”)

Relateds

blabbermouth

Synonyms

loquacious (talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner) · loose-lipped (talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner) · garrulous (talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner) · bigmouthed (talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner)