CHATTY (chattier, chattiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: chattier    , chattiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chatty mean? 

• CHATTY (adjective)
  The adjective CHATTY has 2 senses:

1. full of trivial conversation

2. prone to friendly informal communication

  Familiarity information: CHATTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHATTY (adjective)

Comparative: chattier   
Superlative: chattiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of trivial conversation

Synonyms:

chatty; gabby; garrulous; loquacious; talkative; talky

Context example:

kept from her housework by gabby neighbors

Similar:

voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prone to friendly informal communication

Synonyms:

chatty; gossipy; newsy

Similar:

communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)

Derivation:

chat (an informal conversation)

 Context examples 

Mars will be quite chatty in December, so let’s look at some dazzling days you might want to take advantage of soon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In contrast, if they made the astrocytes chattier by increasing transmission, the rats breathed at higher resting rates and sighed more often.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

He found her as handsome as she had been last year; as good natured, and as unaffected, though not quite so chatty.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Miss Bates was very chatty and good-humoured, as she always is, though she speaks rather too quick.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had the best right to be the talker; and the delight of his sensations in being again in his own house, in the centre of his family, after such a separation, made him communicative and chatty in a very unusual degree; and he was ready to give every information as to his voyage, and answer every question of his two sons almost before it was put.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)