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logorrheic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)bor. English logo- Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sréweti Proto-Hellenic *hréwō Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek ῥοία (rhoía)bor. English -rrhea English logorrhea Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English logorrheic From logorrhea + -ic.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
   • 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. 2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post:
   • 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 [… 1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008:
   • It was a long, logorrheic tale.
   • The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events. 1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495:

Forms

Deriveds

logorrheically

Synonyms

verbose · talkative

Translations (7)

it ciarliero (having excessive flow of words) · nl praatzuchtig (having excessive flow of words) · it loquace (having excessive flow of words) · it verboso (having excessive flow of words) · fr logorrhéique (having excessive flow of words) · it logorroico (having excessive flow of words) · it prolisso (having excessive flow of words)