communicative

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=mu=ni=ca=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

communicative, a. [Cf. F. Communicatif, LL. communicativus.].

 Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.  [1913 Webster]
"Determine, for the future, to be less communicative."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

communicative, adj.
1 open, talkative, informative.
2 ready to communicate.

Derivative

communicatively adv.

Etymology

LL communicativus (as COMMUNICATE)

THESAURUS

communicative

accessible, advisory, affable, all jaw, amiable, approachable, candid, chatty, chitchatty, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, colloquial, communicable, companionable, companionate, compatible, confabulatory, congenial, conversable, conversational, courteous, cozy, demonstrative, educational, educative, effusive, enlightening, expansive, extroverted, fit for society, flip, fluent, fond of society, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, gabby, garrulous, gassy, genial, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushing, gushy, hospitable, informational, informative, informing, instructive, interlocutory, long-winded, loquacious, monitory, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, prolix, self-revealing, self-revelatory, smooth, sociable, social, social-minded, talkative, talky, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, urbane, verbose, voluble, windy

ROGET THESAURUS

communicative

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.