Synonyms for communicative


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuh-myoo-ni-key-tiv, -kuh-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈmyu nɪˌkeɪ tɪv, -kə tɪv

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Définition of communicative

Origin :
  • late 14c., "that communicates," from French communicatif, from Latin communicat-, past participle stem of communicare "impart, inform" (see communication). Meaning "talkative" is recorded from 1650s.
  • adj informative
Example sentences :
  • When he returned home, tired, in the evening, he was not communicative.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • They must wait until the communicative spirit should move him.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Mr. Gladstone in the House was voluble, eloquent, communicative.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
  • During the march through the woods the Indians were not communicative.
  • Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby
  • But you cannot deny that you have not been communicative, Kirylo Sidorovitch.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • Men in general may be divided into the inquisitive and the communicative.
  • Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
  • Art is communicative, but not surely a communication of nothing.
  • Extract from : « Personality in Literature » by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
  • Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.
  • Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
  • I was the only one of them who had not been communicative with her.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 » by Various
  • There remain two instincts,—the communicative and the inquisitive.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes

Antonyms for communicative

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