communicative

English

Etymology

From Middle French communicatif.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, /kəˈmjuː.nə.kə.t̬ɪv/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjunɪkeʈɪv/

Adjective

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.

   • 2025 December 22, Howard LaFranchi, “Near Ukraine’s front line, aquarium offers refuge for kids and soldiers alike”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     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.

Derived terms

• chemocommunicative
• communicative competence
• communicatively
• communicativeness
• incommunicative
• intercommunicative
• metacommunicative
• miscommunicative
• noncommunicative
• sociocommunicative
• telecommunicative
• uncommunicative

Translations

eager to communicate

Bulgarian: общи́телен (bg) m (obštítelen) Catalan: comunicatiu Czech: komunikativní (cs) Esperanto: komunikema German: kommunikativ (de) Hungarian: közlékeny (hu), beszédes (hu) Indonesian: komunikatif (id) Kazakh: қатысымдық (qatysymdyq) Polish: komunikatywny Russian: общи́тельный (ru) m (obščítelʹnyj), коммуникати́вный (ru) (kommunikatívnyj) Spanish: comunicativo (es)

French

Adjective

communicative

1. feminine singular of communicatif

Latin

Adjective

commūnicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of commūnicātīvus