logorrheic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting logorrhea, the excessive flow of words
Example Sentences
- "It was a long, logorrheic tale."
- "The content of this logorrheic delirium is mainly made up of recent events."
- "In a logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week […"
- "I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)bor. English logo- Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *sréweti Proto-Hellenic *hréwō Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek ῥοία (rhoía)bor. English -rrhea English logorrhea Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English logorrheic From logorrhea + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more logorrheic (comparative)
most logorrheic (superlative)
logorrhoeic (alternative)
logorrhœic (alternative)