communicative

English

Etymology

From Middle French communicatif.

Adjective

communicative (comparative more communicative, superlative most communicative)

  1. Eager to communicate; talkative.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 328:
      One of his attendants had found no little favour in the eyes of Alice, who expressed her suspicions that her mistress had some secret correspondence, for two reasons; first, to satisfy a naturally communicative temper—all common people are communicative: and secondly, in hopes of gaining such assistance as might ultimately gratify her own curiosity, now most uncomfortably excited.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Adjective

communicative

  1. feminine singular of communicatif

Latin

Adjective

commūnicātīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of commūnicātīvus
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