adjective
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full of trivial conversation; talkative
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informal and friendly; gossipy
a chatty letter
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of chatty
First recorded in 1755–65; chat ( def. ) + -y 1
Example Sentences
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They also detailed their extensive chatty emails and the luxury gifts he showered on her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Eileen Shiffrin, Mikaela’s mother and original skiing Obi-Wan, says she knows it’s going to be a good day when her daughter is goofing off and chatty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
He had barely spoken in the first few weeks back; now he was almost chatty by comparison.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
"He was a nice, chatty warm person," says Samantha.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
Even Smith would be in an optimistic, relatively chatty mood, stringing several hundred words together in what the papers would call “a great moral victory for the reporters present.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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