Meanings
comparative more logorrheic · superlative most logorrheic · alternative logorrhoeic · alternative logorrhœic
- Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
It was a long, logorrheic tale.
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The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.
1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […
1936 November 2, “Last Lap”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
2007 February 2, Eugene Robinson, “An Inarticulate Kickoff”, in Washington Post
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
- Proto-Hellenic*lógos
- Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
- Englishlogo-
- Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
- Proto-Indo-European*srew-
- Proto-Indo-European*sréweti
- Proto-Hellenic*hréwō
- Ancient Greekῥέω (rhéō)
- Ancient Greekῥοία (rhoía)
- Englishlogorrhea
- Englishlogorrheic
Translations
Dutch praatzuchtig
- praatzuchtighaving excessive flow of words
French logorrhéique
- logorrhéiquehaving excessive flow of words
Italian logorroico, ciarliero
- logorroicohaving excessive flow of words
- ciarlierohaving excessive flow of words
- prolissohaving excessive flow of words
- loquacehaving excessive flow of words
- verbosohaving excessive flow of words
Cite this entry
logorrheic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic
“logorrheic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “logorrheic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic.
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