COMMUNICATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communicative mean? 

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

1. of or relating to communication

2. able or tending to communicate

  Familiarity information: COMMUNICATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to communication

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

communicative arts

Pertainym:

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Derivation:

communicate (transmit information)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Able or tending to communicate

Synonyms:

communicative; communicatory

Context example:

was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew

Similar:

outspoken; vocal (given to expressing yourself freely or insistently)

Italian-speaking (able to communicate in Italian)

Japanese-speaking (able to communicate in Japanese)

Kannada-speaking (able to communicate in Kannada)

Livonian-speaking (able to communicate in Livonian)

narrative (consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story)

nonverbal (involving little use of language)

nonverbal (lacking verbal skill)

openhearted (freely communicative; candidly straightforward)

Oscan-speaking (able to communicate in Oscan)

anecdotal; anecdotic; anecdotical (characterized by or given to telling anecdotes)

Russian-speaking (able to communicate in Russian)

Samoyedic-speaking (able to communicate in Samoyedic)

Semitic-speaking (able to communicate in a Semitic language)

Siouan-speaking (able to communicate in a Siouan language)

Spanish-speaking (able to communicate in Spanish)

Turkic-speaking (able to communicate in Turkic)

verbal (communicated in the form of words)

yarn-spinning (inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings))

heraldic (indicative of or announcing something to come)

Bantu-speaking (able to communicate in Bantu)

blabbermouthed; leaky; talebearing; tattling (prone to communicate confidential information)

chatty; gossipy; newsy (prone to friendly informal communication)

communicable (readily communicated)

communicational (used in communication)

English-speaking (able to communicate in English)

expansive; talkative (friendly and open and willing to talk)

expressive (characterized by expression)

Finno-Ugric-speaking (able to communicate in a Finno-Ugric language)

Flemish-speaking (able to communicate in Flemish)

French-speaking (able to communicate in French)

Gaelic-speaking (able to communicate in Gaelic)

German-speaking (able to communicate in German)

gesticulating (making gestures while speaking)

gestural; nonverbal (being other than verbal communication)

gestural; sign; sign-language; signed (used of the language of the deaf)

Icelandic-speaking (able to communicate in Icelandic)

Also:

articulate (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)

Antonym:

uncommunicative (not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions)

Derivation:

communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

communicate (transmit information)

communicate (be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas)

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

 Context examples 

As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she had dreamed at all that night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Neither did I like to say, that I hoped he had not been too communicative to Uriah; or to inquire if they had talked much about me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like most people who lead a lonely life, she was shy at first, but ended by becoming extremely communicative.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still, at the time of that January 24-25 new moon, Mars, the action planet, was beautifully conversant with communicative Mercury.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Young lady, I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The brothers talked of their own concerns and pursuits, but principally of those of the elder, whose temper was by much the most communicative, and who was always the greater talker.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas was as joyful as she could desire, and very kind and communicative; and she had so comfortable a talk with him about William as to make her feel as if nothing had occurred to vex her, till she found, towards the close, that Mr. Crawford was engaged to return and dine there that very day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The communicative lady I learnt, on inquiry, for I stayed in the shop till they were gone, was a Mrs. Ellison, and that, as I have been since informed, is the name of Miss Grey's guardian.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Thorpe, most happy to be on speaking terms with a man of General Tilney's importance, had been joyfully and proudly communicative; and being at that time not only in daily expectation of Morland's engaging Isabella, but likewise pretty well resolved upon marrying Catherine himself, his vanity induced him to represent the family as yet more wealthy than his vanity and avarice had made him believe them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)