To be communicative is to have the ability to communicate — to exchange thoughts and ideas. Couples often go to counseling to learn to be more communicative. It's easy to see the verb communicate in the adjective communicative: a communicative person is one who can communicate easily.
Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things. She has become a lot more tolerant and communicative.
Definition of communicative adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective communicative, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
adjective inclined to communicate or impart; talkative. He isn't feeling very communicative today. Synonyms: expansive, voluble, loquacious, free-spoken of or relating to communication.
com•mu•ni•ca•tive (kə myo̅o̅′ ni kā′tiv, -kə tiv), adj. inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today. of or pertaining to communication. Also, com•mu•ni•ca•to•ry (kə myo̅o̅′ ni kə tôr′ē, -tōr′ē).
