chatty

[chat-ee]

adjective

chattier, chattiest 

1. characterized by friendly and informal talk or writing, often about minor or personal matters.

   a long, chatty letter from my sister.

   Synonyms: newsy, talkative, gossipy, voluble, talky

2. given to such talk.

   a lovable, chatty old man.

chatty

/ ˈtʃætɪ /

adjective

1. full of trivial conversation; talkative

2. informal and friendly; gossipy

   a chatty letter

Other Word Forms

• chattily adverb
• chattiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of chatty¹

First recorded in 1755–65; chat ( def. ) + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Yet when she spoke, her tone was chatty, as if it were some other kindhearted housekeeper who had just been overcome with tears for the twelfth time that day.

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Put one in a film with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original 1987 summer action hit and suddenly the Terminator seems chatty.

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"How chatty I am in general, I just started a conversation," he said.

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Funny side characters—the enlightened mom who looks down on people who use diapers; the chatty wife who will not stop talking about her husband’s vasectomy—fill out a believable cast.

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“People in love are boring,” she notes of a steady, chatty customer known simply as the waitress.

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Related Words

• communicative 
• conversational 
• friendly 
• garrulous 
• informal 
• intimate 
• loquacious