communicative

From Middle French communicatif.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, /kəˈmjuː.nə.kə.t̬ɪv/

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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.

communicative

1. feminine singular of communicatif

commūnicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of commūnicātīvus