chattier; chattiest
2
: having the style and manner of light familiar conversation
a chatty letter
Examples of chatty in a Sentence
a chatty book about his life in politics
a time when campers were expected to write a chatty letter to their folks every week
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
In chatty columns for the school paper, the Bowdoin Orient, Mamdani regularly sounded off on the topics of the day.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Behind bars, Naso became chatty with William Noguera, a fellow death row inmate and artist.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Maybe Swift is just feeling chattier this time around.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Chatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatty. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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chatty
adjective
chat·ty
ˈchat-ē 
chattier; chattiest
1
: fond of chatting
a chatty neighbor
2
: having the style of a chat
a chatty letter
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