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COMMUNICATIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able or tending to communicate
Example:
was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew
Synonyms:
communicative; communicatory
Classified under:
Similar:
Icelandic-speaking (able to communicate in Icelandic)
Italian-speaking (able to communicate in Italian)
Japanese-speaking (able to communicate in Japanese)
Kannada-speaking (able to communicate in Kannada)
Livonian-speaking (able to communicate in Livonian)
narrative (consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story)
nonverbal (involving little use of language)
nonverbal (lacking verbal skill)
openhearted (freely communicative; candidly straightforward)
Oscan-speaking (able to communicate in Oscan)
outspoken; vocal (given to expressing yourself freely or insistently)
Russian-speaking (able to communicate in Russian)
Samoyedic-speaking (able to communicate in Samoyedic)
Semitic-speaking (able to communicate in a Semitic language)
Siouan-speaking (able to communicate in a Siouan language)
Spanish-speaking (able to communicate in Spanish)
Turkic-speaking (able to communicate in Turkic)
verbal (communicated in the form of words)
yarn-spinning (inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings))
anecdotal; anecdotic; anecdotical (characterized by or given to telling anecdotes)
Bantu-speaking (able to communicate in Bantu)
blabbermouthed; leaky; talebearing; tattling (prone to communicate confidential information)
chatty; gossipy; newsy (prone to friendly informal communication)
communicable (readily communicated)
communicational (used in communication)
English-speaking (able to communicate in English)
expansive; talkative (friendly and open and willing to talk)
expressive (characterized by expression)
Finno-Ugric-speaking (able to communicate in a Finno-Ugric language)
Flemish-speaking (able to communicate in Flemish)
French-speaking (able to communicate in French)
Gaelic-speaking (able to communicate in Gaelic)
German-speaking (able to communicate in German)
gesticulating (making gestures while speaking)
gestural; nonverbal (being other than verbal communication)
gestural; sign; sign-language; signed (used of the language of the deaf)
heraldic (indicative of or announcing something to come)
Also:
voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)
articulate (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)
Antonym:
uncommunicative (not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions)
Derivation:
communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
communicate (transmit information)
communicate (be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas)
communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to communication
Example:
communicative arts
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
Derivation:
communicate (transmit information)
Context examples:
There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It is just possible that to-morrow may find him in a more communicative mood.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Or you may be ready to start your own podcast series, app, or blog or work on any other project centered on one of the communicative arts.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Marianne's countenance was more communicative.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Weston, however, too eager to be very observant, too communicative to want others to talk, was very well satisfied with what she did say, and soon moved away to make the rest of his friends happy by a partial communication of what the whole room must have overheard already.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had the best right to be the talker; and the delight of his sensations in being again in his own house, in the centre of his family, after such a separation, made him communicative and chatty in a very unusual degree; and he was ready to give every information as to his voyage, and answer every question of his two sons almost before it was put.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had often endeavoured to elicit from my companion what had first turned his mind in the direction of criminal research, but had never caught him before in a communicative humour.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On that subject poor Miss Bates was very unhappy, and very communicative; Jane would hardly eat any thing:—Mr. Perry recommended nourishing food; but every thing they could command (and never had any body such good neighbours) was distasteful.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She told me one evening, when more disposed to be communicative than usual, that John's conduct, and the threatened ruin of the family, had been a source of profound affliction to her: but she had now, she said, settled her mind, and formed her resolution.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
