Talkative

Definitions: Talkative

Talkative

Adjective

1. Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors".

2. Unwisely talking too much.

3. Friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive".

Date "talkative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Talkative

Synonyms: bigmouthed (adj), blabbermouthed (adj), blabby (adj), chatty (adj), expansive (adj), gabby (adj), garrulous (adj), loquacious (adj), talky (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Loquacity	Adjective: loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious,
Speech	Adjective: speaking; spoken; Verb: oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent; talkative; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Talkative

English words defined with "talkative": blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger ♦ Dicacious ♦ effusiveness, expansiveness ♦ garrulity, garrulousness ♦ line-shooter, Long-tongued, loquaciousness, loquacity ♦ Multiloquous ♦ popinjay, Prateful ♦ talkativeness ♦ vaunter ♦ Writative. (references)

Specialty definitions using "talkative": Baccoch ♦ gob-pile orator ♦ Lie at the Catch ♦ PRATE ROAST. (references)

Etymologies containing "talkative": Blatherskite ♦ loquacious ♦ Prateful ♦ Writative. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're not very talkative are you? (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)
Movie/TV Titles	Tenants of Talkative Street (1974)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Talkative Man (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference) The Talkative Beasts: Myths, Fables, and Poems of India (reference) When God Speaks: Tuning in to Our Talkative God (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Oliver Goldsmith	Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Mr. John Knightley proved more talkative than his brother.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She was a little deaf, which made her talkative.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Taken in small amounts (up to 100 mg), cocaine usually makes the user feel euphoric, energetic, talkative, and mentally alert, especially to the sensations of sight, sound, and touch. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Talkative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "Talkative" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.13%	105	31,781
Noun (proper)	1.87%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	107	N/A

Expressions using "talkative": talkative person ♦ talkative woman. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "talkative": over-talkative.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "talkative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thashethemaxhi (scandal-bearer, scandalmonger, talebearer, taleteller, telltale), llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossip, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, magpie, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattler, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag), fjalaman (chatterbox, chatty, gusher, talker), fjalëshumë (garrulous, loquacious, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy). (various references)

Arabic		‏ذلق اللسان, ‏ثرثار (babbler, babbling, big-mouthed, braggart, bragging, chatterbox, garrulous, gossipy, loquacious, loudmouth, loudmouthed, prattler, talking). (various references)

Bulgarian		словоохотлив (chatty, garrulous, lengthy, voluble), бъбрив (chatty, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, long winded, loquacious, mouthy, voluble), приказлив (gossipy, long-tongued, loquacious, voluble). (various references)

Chinese		譅 (loquacious), 譫 (incoherent talk), 健谈, 囉�"� (multitude of small annoyances), 囉 (fussy, subordinate in a gang of bandits). (various references)

Czech		tlachavý, upovídaný (garrulous, long-tongued, loquacious, verbose), povídavý (conversational, Gabby, gossipy, narrative), mnohomluvný (long winded, verbose, voluble, wordy), hovorný (chatty, communicative, conversable, garrulous). (various references)

Danish		snaksom. (various references)

Dutch		spraakzaam. (various references)

Esperanto		parolema. (various references)

Farsi		پرچانه (Pernickety), پرگو (Blabbermouth, Loquacious, Prolix, Verbose), پرحرف (Blowhard, Chatty, Garrulous, Loquacious, Outspoken, Rattletrap, Voluble), وراج (Blabber, Blabbermouth, Chatty, Loquacious, Loudmouthed), بسگوی . (various references)

Finnish		suulas (garrulous, loquacious), puhelias (loquacious), juttelunhaluinen (chatty). (various references)

French		volubile, loquace (talker), bavard (talkative person, talker, tattler). (various references)

German		redselig (loquacious, verbose, voluble), gesprächig (chattily, chatty, communicative, garrulous, talkatively), beredsam (eloquent, eloquently, persuasive). (various references)

Greek		πολύλογοσ (chatty, loquacious, verbalizer, verbose, voluble, wordy), ομιλητικόσ (chatty, communicative, conversational, homiletic, sleeky, sociable, vocal). (various references)

Hebrew		פטפט� י, �"בר� י (garrulous, loquacious, windy). (various references)

Hungarian		beszédes (affable, chatty, communicative, conversational, expansive, loquacious, talking, voluble, yakky), bõbeszédû (garrulous, long winded, loquacious, tattler, verbose, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Indonesian		suka bercakap-cakap, panjang bibir, ceramah (causerie, discourse, extracurricular, sermon), bacar (garrulous). (various references)

Irish		cainteach. (various references)

Italian		loquace (chattily, conversational, eloquent, Gabby, garrulous, loquacious, voluble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		話し好き , 軽口 (frivolous talk, loose-lipped, persiflage), お喋り (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, talk), 口軽 (loose-lipped), 口喧しい (gossipy, nagging), 口� 実 (voluble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おしゃべり (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, talk), くちがる (loose-lipped), くちまめ (voluble), くちやかましい (gossipy, nagging), かるくち (frivolous talk, loose-lipped, persiflage), はなしずき. (various references)

Manx		chengleyragh (argue, argumentative, jabber). (various references)

Pig Latin		alkativetay.(various references)

Polish		gadatliwy. (various references)

Portuguese		tagarela (babbler, blab, bletherskite, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, clat, gabbler, Gabby, garrulous, jays, loquacious, milk and water, praties, tattler, telltale), falador (big mouth, blithering, cackler, circumlocutional, gabbler, gassy, hot air, leaky, long winded, loquacity, talker, talking), conversador (chatty, conversationalist, gaberdine, talker), conversadeira (chatty, cosy, cozy, sociable). (various references)

Romanian		sfãtos (glib-tongued, tonguey, wise), limbut (chatterbox, Gabby, garrulous, long-tongued, voluble), gureş (garrulous), guraliv (flippant, garrulous, long-tongued, mouthy, voluble), flecar (babbler, blab, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, driveller, flibbertigibbet, flippant, garrulous, magpie, rattler, sieve, talker, talky, telltale, windbag), comunicativ (catching, communicative, conversable, expansive, social, voluble). (various references)

Russian		разговорчивый (communicative, conversational, gabby, talky). (various references)

Scottish		reasach, gobach (garrulous), camhach, abartach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		torokuša (jackdaw, tabby), govorljiv (communicable, copious, garrulous, long winded, loquacious, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Spanish		hablador (big-mouthed, bletherskate, chatty, communicant, demagogue, driveler, driveller, Gabby, gossip, gossipmonger, joker, talker, tattler). (various references)

Swedish		språksam, talför (glib, slick, voluble), pratsam (chatty, conversational, long-tongued, loquacious). (various references)

Thai		ช่างพู�" (gabby). (various references)

Turkish		konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talky, vocal, voluble), geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, chatty, gabbler, Gabby, garrulous, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, loquacious, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talky, voluble, windbag, windjammer), dilli (glib, loquacious, tongued, voluble), çenesi düşük (blab, chatty), çenebaz (chatterbox, garrulous, prattler, roisterer, voluble). (various references)

Turkmen		lakgy, geplemюek (conversational). (various references)

Ukranian		балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, voluble, well spoken, windy), просторікуватий (circumlocutory). (various references)

Vietnamese		thích nói, hay nói; lắm điều, ba hoa; bép xép. (various references)

Welsh		siaradus (garrulous), chwedleugar, brac (frank, free). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	garrulus, loquax, loquax, loquacis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "talkative": talkatively, talkativeness, talkativenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "talkative": overtalkative. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Talkative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saltative, talkitive, talkkative, talktive, Tolkachov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "talkative" (pronounced tô"kutiv)
5	-k u t i v	communicative, duplicative, evocative, indicative, provocative.
4	-u t i v	accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-k-l-t-t-v"
	-3 letters: aviate, kittel, kittle, talkie, vittae, vittle.
	-4 letters: akela, alate, alike, alive, atilt, avail, kevil, latke, latte, telia, tilak, title, vakil, valet, vitae, vital, vitta.
	-5 letters: alae, alit, evil, ikat, ilea, ilka, kail, kale, kata, kava, kilt, kite, kiva, lake, late, lati, lava, lave, leak, leva, like, lite, live, tael, tail, taka, take, tala, tale, tali, talk, tate, teak, teal, teat, tela, tike, tile, tilt, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vile, vita.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-k-l-t-t-v"
	+2 letters: talkatively.
	+4 letters: overtalkative, talkativeness.
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