Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or having a disposition to talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to talk or converse; ready or apt to engage in conversation; freely communicative; chatty.
- Synonyms Talkative, Loquacious, Garrulous. Talkative is a mildly unfavorable word; the others are clearly unfavorable. Talkative is applied to a person who is in the habit of speaking frequently, whether much is said at one speaking or not: thus, a lively child may be talkative. A loquacious person is one who has this inclination with a greater flow of words, and perhaps a disposition to make many-words of a small matter. Garrulous is the word applied to mental decline, as in old age, and implies feeble, prosy, continuous talk, with needless repetitions and tiresome details. The subject of a garrulous person's talk is generally himself or his own affairs or observations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to much talking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Tending totalk a lot. - adjective
Speaking openly and honestly,neglecting privacy andconsequences .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective friendly and open and willing to talk
- adjective full of trivial conversation
- adjective unwisely talking too much
Etymologies
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Examples
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I could make no reply, indeed I hardly spoke another word the rest of the evening; so little talkative is the fulness of contentment.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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But in their preface to the poem they make the further point (borrowed, with due acknowledgment, from critic Christopher Ricks) that voluble in its modern sense -- "talkative" -- is what the serpent is about to become.
Cosmic and Sublime 2008
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But in their preface to the poem they make the further point (borrowed, with due acknowledgment, from the critic Christopher Ricks) that voluble in its modern sense -- "talkative" -- is what the serpent is about to become.
Cosmic and Sublime 2008
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: Can Speaking 'Parentese' To Your Baby Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: 'Parentese': Can Speaking To Your Baby This Way Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: 'Parentese': Can Speaking To Your Baby This Way Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: 'Parentese': Can Speaking To Your Baby This Way Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: Can Speaking 'Parentese' To Your Baby Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: Can Speaking 'Parentese' To Your Baby Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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By age three, kids who were talked to regularly by their parents (called the talkative group) had IQ scores 1.5 times higher than those kids whose parents talked to them the least (called the taciturn group).
John Medina, Ph.D.: 'Parentese': Can Speaking To Your Baby This Way Make Her Smarter? (VIDEO) Ph.D. John Medina 2010
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