Dictionary

overloquacious en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + loquacious.

Meanings

1. Excessively loquacious.
   • A salesman should be straightforward and not overloquacious, remembering that it is not the quantity but the quality of talk which counts. 1911, “Business and Commerce”, in Henry W[oldmar] Ruoff, editor, The Volume Library: A Concise, Graded Repository of Practical and Cultural Knowledge Designed for Both Instruction and Reference, Chicago, Ill.: The W. E. Richardson Company, →OCLC, page 428, column 1:
   • He said it with such conviction that I suddenly felt very friendly toward him. Overloquacious—but a heart of pure gold! 1913 September 27, Edwin Lefèvre, “Without End”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 13, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:
   • To maintain credibility, I simply eliminated four or five overloquacious witnesses I knew or believed to be lying, or “spinning,” as they say in German. 1978, James P[reston] O’Donnell, “Prologue”, in The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms

Deriveds

overloquaciousness

Relateds

overloquacity

Synonyms

overchatty · overtalkative