Meaning and example
full of trivial conversation
Kept from her housework by gabby neighbors
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.960 places loquacious in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 83.5% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
vacuousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.4%
devoid of intelligence or thought
jocularUncommon
- Known by
- 83.2%
characterized by jokes and good humor
egregiousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
umbrageUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
a feeling of anger caused by being offended
hubrisUncommon
- Known by
- 83.1%
overbearing pride or presumption
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.