What's the difference between chatty and communicative?

Chatty


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
  • (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's like revisiting an old world," says Topley-Bird, who is droll and spacey where Tricky is hyperactively chatty.
  • (2) His show is called Chatty Man , which is a good title for Carr.
  • (3) He seemed disappointed, but was chatty and easy to get on with."
  • (4) This rather chatty narrative is based on spina bifida care experience, in Sheffield, Toronto, and Chicago.
  • (5) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
  • (6) Musk has a reputation for being prickly but when I meet him at SpaceX , his headquarters west of Los Angeles, he is affable and chatty, cheerfully expounding on space exploration, climate change, Richard Branson and Hollywood.
  • (7) Leading actor Winner: Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie's Story) Toby Jones – The Girl Leading actress Winner: Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax Rebecca Hall – Parade's End Sienna Miller – The Girl Supporting actor Winner: Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie's Story) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Supporting actress Winner: Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo's Story) Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax Performance in an entertainment programme Winner: Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show Ant and Dec for I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
  • (8) One of Enoch Powell's most famous quips was prompted by an encounter with the resident House of Commons barber: a notoriously chatty character, who enjoyed treating captive clients to his views on politics and the state of the world.
  • (9) I listened alongside a chatty young Scottish Conservative from Stirling who wandered over to meet him with me, and so it is possible Fox may have simply assumed that I was another activist.
  • (10) Previously chatty and relaxed, he spoke in a loud and oddly deliberate voice.
  • (11) Rather at odds with the self-presentation of a chatty provincial housewife whose books just "pop up" out of nowhere is a forthcoming schedule that suggests 2011 might turn out to be an annus mirabilis in a life already rich in achievement.
  • (12) I hail a cab  and the chatty driver asks what I've been up to this evening.
  • (13) • A new series of Chatty Man starts on Friday 27 April on Channel 4.
  • (14) So since the Fed is so chatty, do we know if Yellen believes in this stimulus?
  • (15) The volunteers at the West Cheshire food bank were “kind, helpful, chatty people”, he says.
  • (16) It shows their prowess in the wild," one chatty guide told the media.
  • (17) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
  • (18) Sometimes he was very chatty, sometimes he was very quiet – I always thought he should have been on the telly.
  • (19) The bar staff are super chatty, as are the regulars, the gents are still outside in the yard and the soundtrack is old northern soul and Johnny Cash.
  • (20) Chatty, well-informed staff add warmth to a slightly dour pub.

Communicative


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
  • (3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (4) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
  • (5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
  • (6) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
  • (7) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (8) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
  • (9) So we’ve just stopped communicating now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Damaged buildings in Kommunar.
  • (10) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
  • (11) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
  • (12) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
  • (13) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (14) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
  • (15) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
  • (16) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
  • (17) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (18) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
  • (19) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
  • (20) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.