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Antonyms for talkative
ˈtɔ kə tɪvtalk·a·tive

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. talkative

    Garrulous signifies given to constant trivial talking. Chattering signifies uttering rapid, noisy, and unintelligible, or scarcely intelligible, sounds, whether articulate words or such as resemble them; chattering is often used of vocal sounds that may be intelligible by themselves but are ill understood owing to confusion of many voices or other cause. The talkative person has a strong disposition to talk, with or without an abundance of words, or many ideas; the loquacious person has an abundant flow of language and much to say on any subject suggested; either may be lively and for a time entertaining; the garrulous person is tedious, repetitious, petty, and self-absorbed. Verbose is applied to utterances more formal than conversation, as to writings or public addresses. We speak of a chattering monkey or a chattering idiot, a talkative child, a talkative or loquacious woman, a garrulous old man, a verbose writer. Compare CIRCUMLOCUTION.

    Antonyms:
    laconic, reserved, reticent, silent, speechless, taciturn

    Synonyms:
    chattering, garrulous, loquacious, verbose

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talkyadjective

    full of trivial conversation

    "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"

    Antonyms:
    uncommunicative, incommunicative, taciturn, discreet

    Synonyms:
    newsy, gossipy, gabby, expansive, garrulous, blabbermouthed, bigmouthed, chatty, loquacious, blabby, talky

  2. bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, talkativeadjective

    unwisely talking too much

    Antonyms:
    incommunicative, discreet, uncommunicative, taciturn

    Synonyms:
    loquacious, gabby, tattling(a), expansive, garrulous, bigmouthed, talebearing(a), blabby, chatty, talky, blabbermouthed, leaky

  3. expansive, talkativeadjective

    friendly and open and willing to talk

    "wine made the guest expansive"

    Antonyms:
    discreet, taciturn, uncommunicative, incommunicative

    Synonyms:
    loquacious, gabby, expansive, heroic, bigmouthed, chatty, blabby, blabbermouthed, talky, grand, garrulous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. talkativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent, still

    Synonyms:
    garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble, unreserved

How to use talkative in a sentence?

  1. Jimmy LaSalvia:

    It was the first time he spoke as a potential candidate. That was a big deal, i realized that maybe he wasn't so talkative at first because he hadn't done that before. Afterwards, he was more himself.

  2. Kahlil Gibran:

    I learnt silence from the talkative

  3. Kyrie Irving:

    It felt like a must-win night, i'm not saying that the other nights didn't feel like that, but you just got to go into that deep place where you just aren't distracted by anything that's going on and there's a goal at hand when you step out there, and I just get less talkative and I have a look on my face where I'm just ready to go out there and just do what's needed for us to get this win.

  4. Dejan Stojanovic:

    We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

  5. Kahlil Gibran:

    I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#258reserved
#4205quiet
#5152silent
#10748withdrawn
#13204discreet
#15923mute
#39678speechless
#53380talkative
#54494terse
#58451sullen
#68728dour
#81424reticent
#103727laconic
#116926taciturn
#148052monosyllabic
#241021uncommunicative

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