talkativeadj.
/ˈtɔːkətɪv/, U.S. /ˈtɔkədɪv/, /ˈtɑkədɪv/ a. Given to talking; inclined to talk; chatty, loquacious; garrulous, ‘full of prate’ (Johnson).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]
wordyeOE
talewisec1200
i-worded?c1225
babblinga1250
cacklinga1250
chatteringa1250
speakfula1250
word-wooda1250
of many wordsc1350
janglingc1374
tatteringc1380
tongueya1382
ganglinga1398
readya1400
jargaunt1412
talkative1432
open-moutheda1470
clattering1477
trattling?a1513
windy1513
popping1528
smatteringa1529
rattle?1529
communicablea1533
blab1552
gaggling1553
long-tongued?1553
prittle-prattle1556
pattering1558
talking1560
bobling1566
gabbling1566
verbal1572
piet1573
twattling1573
flibber gibber1575
babblative1576
tickle-tongued1577
tattling1581
buzzing1587
long-winded1589
multiloquous1591
discoursive1599
rattling1600
glib1602
flippant1605
talkful1605
nimble-tongued1608
tongue-ripe1610
fliperous1611
garrulous?1611
futile1612
overspeaking1612
feather-tongueda1618
tongue-free1617
long-breatheda1628
well-breathed1635
multiloquious1640
untongue-tied1640
unretentive1650
communicative1651
linguacious1651
glibbed1654
largiloquent1656
multiloquent1656
parlagea1657
loose-clacked1661
nimble-chop1662
twit-twat1665
over-talkativea1667
loquacious1667
loudmouth1668
conversable1673
gash1681
narrative1681
chappy1693
apposite1701
conversative1703
gabbit1710
lubricous1715
gabby?1719
ventose1721
taleful1726
chatty?1741
blethering1759
renable1781
fetch-fire1784
conversational1799
conversant1803
gashing1808
long-lunged1815
talky1815
multi-loquacious1819
prolegomenous1822
talky-talky1831
nimble-mouthed1836
slipper1842
speechful1842
gassy1843
in great force1849
yattering1859
babbly1860
irreticent1864
chattable1867
lubrical1867
chattery1869
loose-mouthed1872
chinny1883
tongue-wagging1885
yappy1909
big-mouthed1914
loose-lipped1919
ear-bashing1945
ear-bending1946
yackety-yacking1953
nattering1959
yacking1959
woofy1960
1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 469 Hit is a fowle vice in a kynge to be talkatyve [L. dicacem fore; Trevisa to iangle moche] in a feste.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 243/1 The more foole the more talkatife of great doutes and hygh questions of holy Scripture.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Talcatiue, or full of talkynge and pratlynge, fabularis.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 51 in Scepsis Scientifica Our Author will not reckon, him among the slight and talkative Philosophers.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 55 [He] became very talkative over his second bottle of port.
b. Said of personal qualities, etc.; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > [adjective] > indicating or indicative of
talkative1509
indicant1607
denotative1611
indicative1665
notifying1680
expressive1713
indicating1753
impressive1791
indicatory1798
redolent1828
denotive1830
indiciala1849
indexical1897
society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [adjective] > of personal qualities: given to talking
talkative1509
declarative1647
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxiv Sophestry nor Logyke with their art talcatyfe.
1561 Craft of Louers in Chaucer's Wks. f. cccxlj/1 Your peinted eloquence So gay so freshe and eke so talcatife.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 1 The Hand, that busie instrument, is most talkative.
1719 R. Steele Plebeian in Wks. (1790) 293 Nothing is so talkative as misfortune.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 260 So little talkative is the fullness of contentment.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 47 This..is the most talkative glacier I have ever known.
Derivatives
ˈtalkatively adv. in a talkative way.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb]
roundly1546
babblingly1561
babblishly1574
talkatively1589
full-moutha1605
fluently1613
volubly?1615
gliba1623
glibly1669
gash1721
gashlya1774
rattlingly1824
loquaciously1854
garrulously1859
chatteringly1864
communicatively1868
chattily1892
talkingly1895
gushily1921
yappingly1924
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 133 For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Talkatively, after a talkative Manner.
1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. and in mod. Dicts.
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