communicative
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French communicatif.
Adjective
[edit]communicative (comparative more communicative, superlative most communicative)
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]eager to communicate
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French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]communicative
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]commūnicātīve