overtalkative

Won't stop talking

Overtalkative means excessively talkative—talking more than the situation warrants or others can tolerate.

The word implies a negative judgment: someone merely talkative may be pleasantly chatty, but someone overtalkative tests patience.

My overtalkative seatmate didn't let me sleep the entire flight.

chatty

gabby

Inclined to chatter

motor-mouth · jabbering · yakking · nattering · prattling · babbling · gossipy · mouthy · windbag · tattling

verbose

wordy

Using more language than necessary

periphrastic · pleonastic · redundant · repetitive · digressive · discursive · rambling · meandering · diffuse · overwrought

unfiltered

loose-lipped

Prone to revealing secrets

outspoken · oversharing · unbridled · unguarded · forthcoming · frank · candid · revealing · tell-all

bombastic

grandiloquent

Pretentiously elevated in speech

orotund · magniloquent · highfalutin · flowery · overblown · pretentious · grandiose · rhetorical · declamatory · florid

Opposites
verbal output quantity

overtalkativesilent

Producing no sound

quiet · mute · taciturn · reticent · uncommunicative

communicative restraint

overtalkativediscreet

Careful to avoid notice

measured · circumspect · judicious · restrained · succinct

communication style

overtalkativereserved

Restrained in manner

withdrawn · introverted · private · guarded · secretive

Family

talk, talks, talking, talkative, talker, talked, talkativeness, overtalk, overtalking

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G