communicative

English

Etymology

From Middle French communicatif.

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.

Derived terms

• communicative competence
• communicatively
• communicativeness
• incommunicative
• intercommunicative
• metacommunicative
• miscommunicative
• noncommunicative
• 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)
• 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