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chattier

chattier is the comparative form of chatty.

Meaning of chatty

Adjective (1)

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

  1. (informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
    • When a typically chatty employee who often participates in meetings and is engaged and enthusiastic suddenly becomes unmotivated and quieter, that person could be at risk for burnout.2019 September 9, Kathryn Vasel, “Burnout is a big deal. Here’s how managers can spot it”, in CNN Business
  2. (informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
  3. Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.
    • Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

Adjective (2)

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, dated, dialectal) Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy.
    • Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.2014, Ian Robson, “Fenham residents campaign against plans to replace wall with wooden fence”, The Chronicle

Questions about chattier

What is chattier the comparative form of?
Chattier is the comparative form of chatty.

Words near chattier in the dictionary

  1. chattery
  2. Chatthi
  3. chatti
  4. Chattian
  5. chattie
  6. chattier
  7. chatties
  8. chattiest
  9. chattily
  10. Chattin
  11. chattin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chattier (page history and authors); chatty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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