Entry Word: chatty

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having the style and content of everyday conversation <a time when campers were expected to write a chatty letter to their folks every week>

Synonyms colloquial, conversational, gossipy, newsy

Related Words casual, familiar, informal, intimate; digressive, discursive, rambling; communicative, expansive, garrulous, talkative

Near Antonyms ceremonious, dignified, elevated, formal, solemn, stately

Antonyms bookish, literary

2 fond of talking or conversation <a chatty older woman who talked to everyone that walked by> — see talkative