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chatty
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chat·ty
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i
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chat
-ee
]
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adjective,
chat·ti·er,
chat·ti·est.
1.
characterized by friendly and informal talk or writing, often about minor or personal matters:
a long, chatty letter from my sister.
2.
given to such talk:
a lovable, chatty old man.
Origin:
1755–65;
chat
1
+
-y
1
Related forms
chat·ti·ly,
adverb
chat·ti·ness,
noun
Synonyms
1.
talky, voluble, gossipy, talkative, newsy.
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chatty
(ˈtʃætɪ)
—
adj
,
-tier
,
-tiest
1.
full of trivial conversation; talkative
2.
informal and friendly; gossipy:
a chatty letter
'chattily
—
adv
'chattiness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
chatty
"fond of chatting," c.1762, from
chat
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
In fact, he's
chatty
and thoughtful, with the dulcet speaking voice and gentle
mien of a divinity student.
The diners in the private room next to ours,
chatty
all evening, grew quiet.
It's more
chatty
than it is a formal memo of what happened on the trip, but
people know.
Even so, he was uncharacteristically
chatty
as he entered a conference room.
Chatty
beach is beautiful and no wonder visitors flock there.
It's the former that both groups of electric fish have independently co-opted to produce their
chatty
currents.
Some were mirthful and
chatty
, and some were serious and silent.
The plan was to chart a course between the spare and taut modern novel and the
chatty
and slack pre-modern one.
If you're
chatty
, the bills can get steep, while landlines are pretty much flat rate.
As for the film itself, it's still
chatty
and teeth-chatteringly suspenseful.
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