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English
Etymology
From Middle French communicatif.
Adjective
communicative (comparative more communicative, superlative most communicative)
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Adjective
communicative
- feminine singular of communicatif
Latin
Adjective
commūnicātīve
- vocative masculine singular of commūnicātīvus