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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 chatty columns for the school paper, the Bowdoin Orient, Mamdani regularly sounded off on the topics of the day.
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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
One of my chattiest team members wants to catch up.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 17 Sep. 2025
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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
One of my chattiest team members wants to catch up.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatty
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Through it all, the specifically colloquial quality of the dialogue and the delivery of the vivacious voice cast preserves the film’s Mexican identity.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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The language is colloquial, down-to-earth.—
Andrew Rojecki,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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At home, Dan is curious, talkative and always ready to make a new friend.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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Mbeumo, nicknamed Brice, was not shy at football but talkative and funny.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Chatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatty. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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