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communicative

UK/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/US/kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/
adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,643 of 15,258leans written

Communicative means willing and able to share what you think. Not very communicative, a communicative child, communicative and open.

It is used most often in the negative, where saying somebody was not communicative is a polite way of reporting silence. In language teaching, the communicative approach is teaching by using the language rather than by studying it.

Definitions of communicative

  1. 1adjectivecommunicativeWilling and able to share what you think.B2+

    “Teenagers are often less communicative with their parents than they were as children.”

communicative is a quality.

Where it comes from

Middle French communicatif comes from Latin communicare, to share.

  1. Middle French

    communicatif

  2. English, today

    communicative

From Middle French communicatif.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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communicative in the wild

  • The understanding of communicative competence has been influenced by the field of pragmatics and the philosophy of language, including work on speech acts.

    Communicative competence

  • Communicative rationality or communicative reason is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary outcome of successful communication.

    Communicative rationality

  • According to the theory of communicative rationality, the potential for certain kinds of reason is inherent in communication itself.

    Communicative rationality

  • Any behavior (or absence of it) may be judged as communicative if it intends to convey a message.

    Behavioral communication

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.