Entry Word: talkative

Function: adjective

Meaning: fond of talking or conversation <a talkative outgoing tour guide showed our school group around the city>

Synonyms chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talky

Related Words communicative, expansive; demonstrative, effusive, gushing; outspoken, unreserved, vocal; articulate, fluent, glib, voluble; blabby, gossipy, talebearing; long-winded, prolix, verbose, windy, wordy; extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable

Near Antonyms quiet, shy; mum, mute, silent, speechless, tongue-tied, wordless; evasive, nonvocal, secretive, self-contained, uncommunicative; aloof, introverted, unsociable, withdrawn

Antonyms closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped