What's the difference between outspoken and talkative?

Outspoken


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (2) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
  • (3) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
  • (4) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
  • (5) She rejected recent criticism that she has not been sufficiently outspoken against sectarian violence in her country, particularly attacks on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the west of the country.
  • (6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
  • (7) Chelvan has been an outspoken human rights activist since his days as an undergraduate.
  • (8) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
  • (9) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
  • (10) In an outspoken intervention that will reignite tensions between church leaders and the government, Sentamu accuses those in power of offering only "warm words" and "sticking plaster" solutions to a problem that is having "devastating" effects on people's lives.
  • (11) In recent weeks he has been privately outspoken about the need for wide-ranging and fundamental reform of parliament, arguing that everything from party funding, candidate selection, electoral reform and cabinet collective responsibility should be re-examined.
  • (12) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
  • (13) But while she unquestionably adds colour to Westminster, the outspoken MP has also shown a repeated facility for self-sabotage.
  • (14) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
  • (15) But in the article – his first in-depth interview since the bank's $5.8bn trading loss emerged – he makes a new set of strongly-worded remarks and characterises himself as an "outspoken defender of the truth".
  • (16) Ismayilova, an outspoken critic of the government, has been in prison for more than a year on charges she claims are politically motivated.
  • (17) The hostility Said encountered from pro-Israeli circles in New York was predictable, given his trenchant attacks on Israeli violations of the human rights of Palestinians and his outspoken condemnations of US policies in the Middle East.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s outspoken finance minister, left, with Tsakalotos.
  • (19) The letters have been published amid growing signs that Charles is planning to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen.
  • (20) Nevertheless, appearing in Iowa alongside outspoken conservatives such as King carries its own political risk for national politicians.

Talkative


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to much talking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
  • (2) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
  • (3) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
  • (4) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (5) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
  • (6) Role-playing by selected drama students and community theatre actors involves common problems encountered in the optometrist's office and management of problem patients (angry, aggressive, shy, withdrawn, talkative, flirt, hypocondriac, etc.
  • (7) The mental state was characterized by an expressed mental retardation with some special traits: relatively well developed speech, talkativeness, good-naturedness, an euphoric mood, inactivity and poor motor functioning.
  • (8) Lorna Wing, author of the first classic papers on full-spectrum autism, was herself the mother of an autistic daughter, Susie: “Parents … tend to overlook or reject the idea of autism for their socially gauche, naive, talkative, clumsy child,” she wrote.
  • (9) What was astonishing about Day-Lewis's Bafta acceptance speech was how calm and talkative he seemed.
  • (10) But a minor Waitrose-related spat broke out in Westminster on Thursday, with David Cameron accused of elitism as he expressed the personal view that its shoppers tended to be more talkative and "engaged" than customers of other supermarkets.
  • (11) Mosshart is far more sunny and talkative than her onstage image as the love child of Patti Smith and Johnny Thunders suggests.
  • (12) Multiple measures of family adaptability, cohesion, and talkativeness were administered to two family members (insiders) and two significant others (outsiders).
  • (13) Visual analogue scales showed subjective drug effects: pentazocine made the volunteers talkative, contented, interested and energetic, whilst codeine rendered them mentally slow.
  • (14) We assess the hierarchical relations between traits differing in breadth, using a task in which subjects select the most meaningful of two statements, such as "To be talkative is a way of being extroverted" versus "To be extroverted is a way of being talkative."
  • (15) Two longitudinal studies of 2-year-old children who were extreme in the display of either behavioral restraint or spontaneity in unfamiliar contexts revealed that by 7 years of age a majority of the restrained group were quiet and socially avoidant with unfamiliar children and adults whereas a majority of the more spontaneous children were talkative and interactive.
  • (16) Although Crace describes himself as a "landscape writer", he has always dismissed the British landscape as being "too spoken for, too talkative, too small".
  • (17) Two groups of Type A individuals were found--one that was repressed, tense, and illness-prone, but another that was healthy, talkative, in control, and charismatic.
  • (18) I love its friendly, multiracial, talkative people.
  • (19) Telephone companies sent out warning letters to customers they thought were too talkative.
  • (20) It may look a silly, over-talkative film now – and there are Taylor pictures where the sheer visual glory has dated comically – until you let the story melt away and just gaze at her: in Ivanhoe, say, or Beau Brummell, or The Sandpiper or The Last Time I Saw Paris.