Word Meanings - STULTILOQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.

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• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• BABBLEMENT
  Babble. Hawthorne.
• BABBLER
  A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
• SILLY
  sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• BABBLE
  1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton. 2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.
• BABBLERY
  Babble. Sir T. More
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• INELOQUENTLY
  Without eloquence.
• INANILOQUENT; INANILOQUOUS
  Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous.
• FATILOQUENT
  Prophetic; fatidical. Blount.
• CONSEQUENTIALNESS
  The quality of being consequential.
• SANCTILOQUENT
  Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner.
• DIVERSILOQUENT
  Speaking in different ways.
• MAGNILOQUENT
  Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• STULTILOQUENT
  Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. -- Stul*til"o*quent*ly, adv.
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• ELOQUENT
  1. Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.
• FREQUENTATION
  The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
• INFREQUENT
  Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.