(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.
Quiet
Definition:
(a.) In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.
(a.) Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.
(a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience.
(a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.
(a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.
(a.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.
(a.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.
(v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.
(v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.
(v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(4) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(5) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(6) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(7) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(8) It was quiet on the main Manshiya front near the border with Jordan, which he said had been the site of some of the heaviest army bombing in recent weeks.
(9) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(10) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.
(11) This comparison shows that: (1) evaluation of sleep states by CPG technique is only reliable for quiet sleep and (2) there was a significant difference in the number of pauses, the evaluation with PSG being systematically higher than with CPG.
(12) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(13) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(14) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(15) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(16) Any patient with a fairly symmetrical 'quiet' eye disease, especially if congenital, should be suspected of having an hereditary disease--presumably due to a recessive gene, even if the parents are not consanguineous, but possibly due to a mutation which could prove dominant; a search of the literature in such cases is useful.
(17) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
(18) I’ve seen so much in London, almost too much,” she says quietly.
(19) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(20) After PCPA, the amplitude of auditory-evoked LGN PGO waves increased during quiet waking (QW) while those in non-REM and REM sleep states did not change.