What's the difference between loquacious and prolix?

Loquacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
  • (a.) Speaking; expressive.
  • (a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of his advisers, Jen Psaki, said last week: "The president is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers."
  • (2) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
  • (3) They outsourced much of the press publicity to guest performers such as Pharrell Williams and the loquacious Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (4) Aso, a loquacious politician with a knack for verbal blunders, vowed to put his gaffe-prone past behind him when he became leader two months ago.
  • (5) This is leaving both young people and businesses without the skills they need to succeed for the future.” Analysis: On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the normally loquacious shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, seemed to lose his sure touch when Sarah Montague questioned him on the figures.
  • (6) With his rotund figure, swarthy complexion, harrumphing manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, transatlantic tones and tendency to lurk loquaciously about the aisles at the interval, he was a familiar figure at West End openings.
  • (7) Anecdotal reports suggest that children with Williams syndrome are loquacious, affectionate, charming, open, and gentle.
  • (8) An hour in his company confirms all three characteristics, and "loquacious" and "political" must have been close contenders for inclusion too.
  • (9) The loquacious “ginger one from Super Saturday” whose dad recently built him a long jump pit in his back garden, now keeps the most exalted of company.
  • (10) A previous study demonstrated the existence in these patients of a syndrome of mildly elevated psychomotor rate, including irritability, grandiosity, an increased need for social contact, loquaciousness, and sexual preoccupation.
  • (11) This study found that the deaf children responded more loquaciously to questions than they did to statements or expressions of ideas; and the children did not have success in continuing topics of conversation.
  • (12) In 2007, I spent a deliriously enjoyable hour talking to Denis Healey, who was about to turn 90 - and may not have been quite as loquacious as when he was in charge of the UK economy, but still delivered, in spades.
  • (13) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
  • (14) "ISI extols the virtues of some Taliban elements" read one small headline that provided no other details; otherwise loquacious television anchors were largely silent on the matter.
  • (15) Irish actor Saoirse Ronan lamented her loquaciousness recently after revealing her audition publicly, only to be told she had not won a part.
  • (16) The loquacious Ulsterman was a right-half like "Billy Nick", but there the resemblance ended.
  • (17) In recent meetings George Osborne, the normally loquacious chancellor, was said to have gone quiet, possibly tongue-tied by being the one who hired Coulson in the first place.
  • (18) Williams syndrome is associated with intellectual and growth retardation, infantile feeding problems which may be associated with hypercalcaemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, a friendly, loquacious personality, and a typical facies.

Prolix


Definition:

  • (a.) Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
  • (a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
  • (2) Even as they're running way past the climax of the sketch, they're mocking their own prolixity.
  • (3) Even more than most legislation it was prolix and repetitive, but its bold intention stood out: “to give ... the right to buy their homes ... to tenants of local authorities”.
  • (4) It has led some commentators to suggest that in this instance he overstretched himself, that he became prolix or, more charitably, that Beware of Pity is actually two novellas of unequal length stitched together.
  • (5) The plague agent is adapted to the existence on the territory occupied by aggregations of females that manifests itself in the delay of the beginning and prolixity of block-formation periods in fleas.
  • (6) The interpretation of the words in the detailed and prolix terminology by Andry conveys some of the essential contents of modern orthopaedics, but completely ignores another branch of orthopaedics in adults, particularly its most important source, namely, traumatology of the locomotor organs.
  • (7) A narrator devoted to the prolix, the comprehensive.
  • (8) The scientists were unaware of my letter to Congress because they did not have the good sense or courtesy to contact me - or even to contact the vast majority of the scientists whose conclusions I had cited - before circulating to friendly news media their prolix, turgid, repetitive, erroneous and inadequate response to my testimony."
  • (9) Moreover, the current profusion of plausible theories is unmanageably prolix; it is true, however, that theory must account for the complexity of constant shifts of developmental levels in terms of currently used adaptive devices.
  • (10) Although its prolixity has caused comment, the name “Justice for men and boys (and the women who love them)”, acronym J4MB, does not begin to capture the surging passions due to add colour to the three campaigns planned by Mr Buchanan.