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as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
a time when campers were expected to write a chatty letter to their folks every week
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as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
a chatty campaigner who talked to everyone like they were old friends
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Recent Examples of chatty
In person, Abbotoy’s affable, chatty, and eager to debate the finer points of political theory without raising his voice.
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David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 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
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
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David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatty
Adjective
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The colloquial term Paczki Day is used for Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.—
Jelissa Burns,
Freep.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In this context, something as small and lightweight as a pair of earrings could serve as the colloquial glue that united people under one national identity, at a moment in history when destabilization and separation were the modi operandi of a country sharing a border with Ukraine.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Lopez describes her daughter as an energetic, talkative child who speaks both English and Spanish.—
Leondra Head,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Then, like now, people were very talkative.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Chatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatty. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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