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Garrulous vs Blabbermouthed - What's the difference?

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Blabbermouthed is a synonym of garrulous.



As adjectives the difference between garrulous and blabbermouthed

is that garrulous is excessively or tiresomely talkative while blabbermouthed is talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner.

garrulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
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  • * 1984 , "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic , Dec 1984.
    • Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous , untidy narratives read like a good novel.
  • (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

    • Synonyms

    * (excessively or tiresomely talkative) (l), (l), (l), (l) * (excessively wordy and rambling) (l), (l), (l) * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    blabbermouthed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner.
  • * 1947 , Kaspar Monahan, " Show Shops," Pittsburgh Press , 31 March, p. 12 (retrieved 27 July 2010):
    • Maybe I'll live long enough to see a newspaper reporter depicted on the screen as a gentleman, not a drunken, blabbermouthed , wise-cracking bum.
  • * 2001 , , How the Dead Live , ISBN 9780802138484, p. 94
    • The truth was that all this Freudian sex talk was the preview, a blabbermouthed precursor to all the feckless promiscuity that was to follow in the sixties.

    Synonyms

    * bigmouthed, garrulous, loose-lipped, loquacious

    Antonyms

    * discreet, taciturn, tight-lipped

    Related terms

    * blabbermouth