chatty

adjective

chat·​ty ˈcha-tē How to pronounce chatty (audio)
chattier; chattiest
1
: fond of chatting : talkative
a chatty neighbor
2
: having the style and manner of light familiar conversation
a chatty letter
chattily adverb
chattiness noun

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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Maybe Swift is just feeling chattier this time around. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025 Peg is concerned that everyone is chatty, and everyone else is worried about the bathroom situation. Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025 Without holistic profiling, teams miss how upstream bottlenecks, inefficient data serialization or chatty APIs cascade into latency and resource waste. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 One of my chattiest team members wants to catch up. R29 Team, Refinery29, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chatty

Word History

First Known Use

1756, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of chatty was in 1756

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“Chatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatty. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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chatty

adjective
chat·​ty ˈchat-ē How to pronounce chatty (audio)
chattier; chattiest
1
: fond of chatting
a chatty neighbor
2
: having the style of a chat
a chatty letter
chattily adverb
chattiness noun

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