talkative
adjective
inclined to talk a great deal.
untalkative
-
a word derived from
talkative.
Example Sentences
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He said the teenager came across as an "unremarkable, sullen, untalkative, gawky teenage boy" during their sessions together.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Why is a person wearing one black glove pushing a big suitcase in an airport any more suspicious than an untalkative man on a plane scribbling unrecognizable text in a notebook?
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2016
Once on the Sam Simon, the Thunder’s officers were surly and untalkative.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
When the returns came in late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leonor was gray-haired, untalkative, unsmiling—but she showed her care in her cooking.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
