Roget's Thesaurus

#584. Loquacity

Nouns

loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness etc. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking. jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk etc. (converse) 588. fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi [Lat.]; verbosity etc. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab etc. (eloquence) 582. talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler etc. v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip etc. (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles [Fr.].

Verbs

be loquacious etc. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate etc. (speak at length) 573; gossip etc. (converse) 588; din in the ears etc. (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense etc. 497; be hoarse with talking.

Adjectives

loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous; largiloquent; chattering etc. v.; chatty etc. (sociable) 892; declamatory etc. 582; open-mouthed. fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded etc. (diffuse) 573.

Adverbs

trippingly on the tongue; glibly etc. adj.; off the reel.

Phrases

the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; foul whisperings are abroad [Macbeth]; what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! [Tempest].