communicative

1. 1.

   of or relating to communication

   “communicative arts”
2. 2.

   able or tending to communicate

   “was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew”

   Synonymscommunicatory

   Antonymsuncommunicative

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Questions about communicative

What does communicative mean?

communicative means "of or relating to communication". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communicative?

communicative has 5 syllables: com-mu-ni-ca-tive. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /kəˈmjunəkətɪv/.

What is another word for communicative?

Close synonyms include communicatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of communicative?

The recorded antonyms are uncommunicative.

Is communicative a common word?

communicative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.