logorrheic

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words

“It was a long, logorrheic tale.”

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivelogorrheic (comparative more logorrheic, superlative most logorrheic)

comparative more logorrheic · superlative most logorrheic · alternative logorrhoeic · alternative logorrhœic

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words

    It was a long, logorrheic tale.

    3 more examples

    The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events.

    1905, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Text-book of Insanity, page 495

    In 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 2008

    I'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: talkative, verbose

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  4. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  5. Englishlogo-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*srew-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*sréweti
  9. Proto-Hellenic*hréwō
  10. Ancient Greekῥέω (rhéō)
  11. Ancient Greekῥοία (rhoía)
  12. Englishlogorrhea
  13. Englishlogorrheic

From logorrhea + -ic.

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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
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APA

logorrheic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic

MLA

“logorrheic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “logorrheic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/logorrheic.

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