Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post. Here’s this week’s WOW:

WOW

Here’s the WOW for this week :

Enervate-3Word: Garrulous

Part Of Speech:

garrulous: adjective garrulously: adverb garrulousness: noun garrulity: noun

Pronunciation: 

garuh-luh s

Meaning: 
excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
Synonyms:

Talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, long-winded, chatty, gossipy, gossiping, babbling, blathering.

Antonyms: Taciturn, reticent, concise.

Word Origin: 

early 17th century: from Latin garrulus (from garrire ‘to chatter, prattle’) + -ous.
Use in sentence: 

adjective: A garrulous cab driver. noun: The character’s comic garrulity.

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47 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #14)”

  1. Haha, I love that!!! Never heard of that word (which doesn’t mean anything). Great catch, Heena!

    1. Thanks a lot Erika 🙂

  2. What a word! I had no idea 🙂

    1. Thanks Indah 🙂

  3. Are you, btw, garrulous, Heena….?…):):

    1. Haha! Depends who I’m talking to! 😉

  4. I love it, Heena. My co-worker is garrulous. 😀

    1. Thanks Rob… 😀

  5. IDK, I might prefer loquacious or voluble. 🙂

    1. Yea, even I’d go with these instead!
      Garrulous is a funny sounding word… 🙂

  6. A new word for me!

    1. Thanks dear! 🙂

  7. Thanks for the new word Heena!

    1. You’re welcome Tony. Glad you liked it 🙂

  8. My nephew! 🙂

    1. Hahah! My mom! lol! 😉

      1. Oh gracious – my mom too!

        1. Hahaha! Moms will be moms… 😀

  9. This word, as all you’ve shared are rare treasures!

    1. Awww… thanks a lot Sue!you’re the best <3

  10. Thank you very much and happy weekend Heena Rathore P…..💗💗💗

    Do you not like my posts on my blog? …. 🙁

    1. To you too… and it’s not like that, I’m quite busy now a days and not getting enough time to visit all my lovely readers… I’m visiting only 2-3 blogs a day… I’ll visit yours this coming week and will read and catch up with all your amazing posts 🙂

      1. I make it so I visit all my followers on friday …. 🙂

        1. I guess I’ll have to start doing the same! 🙂

    1. Thanks for the link dear! I’ll check it out today itself 🙂

  11. Lol I can be termed as garrulous

  12. Garrulous is a great word, Heena, and can be used so easily in fiction writing.
    Here is the link to my WOW:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/word-of-the-week-wow-14/

    1. Thanks a lot Millie! I’m glad you liked it 🙂

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  15. Great word, Heena. I know a few people who I can definitely describe as garrulous! Here’s the link to my WOW: https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/wow-kelpie/

    1. Thanks Louise 🙂

  16. Hey there Heena. I always learn new words from you, and garrulous is no different. I had never heard this word before. I think I may have been guilty of being ‘garrulous’ more than once in my life as well. Eek. Hmmmmmmm… Is that good?
    Have a great week, my friend.
    🙂

    1. Hi Staci. Thanks a lot for your kind words! And same here… If I’m in a good mood then even I edge towards being one! heheh!
      You too have a great week dear!!! <3

      1. Lol. 😊💕

  17. Hehe great word! I know a few people with this quality 🙂

  18. Love this post and choice of word. Your blog is great.

    1. Thanks a lot! 😀

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