communicative

B2
US /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/ UK /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/
adj Freq #61810

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    able or tending to transmit thoughts or feelings

    The coma patient was uncommunicative.

  2. 2
    adj

    of or relating to communication

    communicative arts

  3. 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
1 adj · able or tending to transmit... communicatory

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