Talkative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Talkative \Talk"a*tive\, a.
     Given to much talking.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Garrulous; loquacious. See {Garrulous}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Talk"a*tive*ly}, adv. --


          {Talk"a*tive*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  talkative
       adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by
              gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous},
               {loquacious}, {talky}]
       2: unwisely talking too much [syn: {bigmouthed}, {blabbermouthed},
           {blabby}]
       3: friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest
          expansive" [syn: {expansive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "talkative":
     accessible, all jaw, apocalyptic, approachable, articulate,
     betraying, candid, chatty, communicative, conversable,
     conversational, de longue haleine, demonstrative, disclosing,
     disclosive, effusive, eloquent, endless, expansive, exposing,
     extended, extroverted, eye-opening, filled out, flip, fluent,
     frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gabby,
     garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, lengthy, long,
     long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent,
     loose-tongued, loquacious, loud-speaking, loud-spoken, mouthy,
     multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, outgoing, outspoken,
     overtalkative, padded, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prolix,
     protracted, revealing, revelational, revelatory, self-revealing,
     self-revelatory, showing, smooth, sociable, soft-speaking,
     soft-spoken, speaking, spun-out, talking, talky, true-speaking,
     unconstrained, unhampered, unrelenting, unrepressed, unreserved,
     unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking,
     unsilent, unsuppressed, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-spoken,
     windy, wordy