communicative
B2
adj
Freq #61810
Meanings
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1
adj
able or tending to transmit thoughts or feelings
The coma patient was uncommunicative.
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2
adj
of or relating to communication
communicative arts
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3
adj
Eager to communicate; talkative.
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.
Etymology
From Middle French communicatif.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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adj
· able or tending to transmit...
communicatory