What is the difference between gregarious and loquacious?
gregarious | loquacious |
(of a person) Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
(zoology) Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
* 1972 , (Richard Adams), (Watership Down)
Talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.
* 1841 , , ch. 8:
As adjectives the difference between gregarious and loquacious
is that gregarious is describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing while loquacious is talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.gregarious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious .
Antonyms
* (of a person) (l) * (zoology) (l)Synonyms
* (of a person who enjoys being in crowds) outgoing, sociableloquacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious , or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.