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Definition of Communicative
1. Adjective. Of or relating to communication. "Communicative arts"
2. Adjective. Able or tending to communicate. "Was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"
Also: Articulate, Voluble
Similar to: Anecdotal, Anecdotic, Anecdotical, Bantu-speaking, Blabbermouthed, Leaky, Talebearing, Tattling, Chatty, Gossipy, Newsy, Communicable, Communicational, English-speaking, Expansive, Talkative, Expressive, Finno-ugric-speaking, Flemish-speaking, French-speaking, Gaelic-speaking, German-speaking, Gesticulating, Gestural, Nonverbal, Gestural, Sign, Sign-language, Signed, Heraldic, Icelandic-speaking, Italian-speaking, Japanese-speaking, Kannada-speaking, Livonian-speaking, Narrative, Nonverbal, Nonverbal, Openhearted, Oscan-speaking, Outspoken, Vocal, Russian-speaking, Samoyedic-speaking, Semitic-speaking, Siouan-speaking, Spanish-speaking, Turkic-speaking, Verbal, Yarn-spinning
Derivative terms: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate, Communicativeness, Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Antonyms: Uncommunicative
Definition of Communicative
1. a. Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Definition of Communicative
1. Adjective. Someone or something which tends to eagerly and effectively communicate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Communicative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Communicative
Literary usage of Communicative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"ART AS REPRESENTATIVE RATHER THAN communicative OF THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS.
Artistic Treatment does Not Increase, and may Diminish the communicative Qualities ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"Relative Powers of Evaporation of radiant and communicative Caloric. Mr.
Robert Stephenson has favoured us with a very interesting experiment, ..."
3. Socializing the Child: A Guide to the Teaching of History in the Primary Grades by Sarah Ann Dynes (1916)
"If this communicative instinct is to make healthy growth, ... The Child's
communicative Instinct. The teacher should also take advantage of the child's ..."
4. The Lancet (1842)
"... will your anonymous correspondent at Lincoln, who seems to know something
about tbe matter, be more communicative 1 The answers to these questions are ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"She was sensible, ingenious, unassuming, yet communicative. I recollect, with
satisfaction, many pleasing hours which I passed with her under the hospitable ..."
6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"Purposes and intentions of individuals with respect to the adjustment stimulus
do however make possible within the domain of communicative language the ..."
7. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1861)
"He was remarkably industrious and punctual, and although grave, and at times
stern, in his manners, he was cheerful and communicative in his hours of ..."
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