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communicative

/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/US/kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/

communicative adjective: eager to communicate; talkative.

Adjective

communicative (comparative more communicative, superlative most communicative)

  1. 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...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 328
    • But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.2025 December 22, Howard LaFranchi, “Near Ukraine’s front line, aquarium offers refuge for kids and soldiers alike”, in The Christian Science Monitor

communicative meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian

communicative in Malayalam

forthcoming, expansive, unreserved
അറിയിക്കുന്ന ശീലമുള്ള, ഉള്ളിലുള്ളതു തുറന്നുപറയുന്ന, പ്രേഷണശീലമായ, രഹസ്യം സൂക്ഷിക്കാത്ത, അഗുപ്ത, അകൃത്രിമ

communicative in Kannada

ತಿಳಿಸುವ ಪ್ರವೃತ್ತಿಯ, ಮಾತನಾಡುವ ಸ್ವಭಾವದ, ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಶೀಲ, ಮುಕ್ತ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ಮುಚ್ಚುಮರೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ

communicative in Indonesian

eager to communicate
komunikatif

Examples of communicative in a sentence

  • All naturally occurring dialects of any language have strong communicative value: That’s how they came to be.
  • He steadfastly asserted that languages were human institutions, the communicative purpositivity of which overrides all else.
  • The third characteristic is a prescriptionistic view of language of and communicative behavior.

All 18 example sentences with communicative

Forms of communicative

comparativemore communicative
superlativemost communicative

Origin of communicative

From Middle French communicatif.

Words formed from communicative

Phrases with communicative

Questions about communicative

What does communicative mean?
Communicative means eager to communicate; talkative.
What is communicative in Malayalam?
Communicative in Malayalam is അറിയിക്കുന്ന ശീലമുള്ള, ഉള്ളിലുള്ളതു തുറന്നുപറയുന്ന, പ്രേഷണശീലമായ. See Communicative meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is communicative?
Communicative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce communicative?
Communicative is pronounced /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/ (UK).

Words near communicative in the dictionary

  1. communications satellite
  2. communications satellites
  3. communications zone
  4. communications zones
  5. Communicationssprache
  6. communicative
  7. communicative competence
  8. communicative competences
  9. communicatively
  10. communicativeness
  11. communicator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: communicative (page history and authors); communicative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); communicative (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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