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communicative Definition

com·mu·ni·ca·tive (kə myo̵̅o̅ni kāt′iv, -ni kə tiv)

adjective

  1. giving information readily; forthcoming
  2. of communication

communicative Related Forms
com·mu·ni·ca′·tively adverb com·mu·ni·ca′·tive·ness noun
communicative Synonyms

communicative

modif.

communicative Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • nature: This would indicate that the primary advantage of video channels becomes apparent when the task being undertaken is communicative in nature.

Modifies a noun

  • competence: She presents two lessons taught by native English-speaking teachers where communicative competence is supposedly promoted.
  • receptivity: Here, he developed a unique working style and methodology based on communicative receptivity to the learner as a person and as a professional.
  • rationality: In any case, communicative rationality provides a complementary function of alternative forms of rationality.
  • intent: In particular, language learning appears to require sophisticated machinery to make inference of communicative intent.
  • behavior: For the pigeon, the " listener " behaved aggressively in order to maintain the communicative behavior.
  • repertoire: Gesture may thus provide a way for new meanings to enter children's communicative repertoires.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: The language course is based on a highly communicative method in small groups.
  • very: These sons of the wilderness were not, however, very communicative, for they spake never a word more.
  • essentially: They do not encode an element of thought but are essentially communicative devices.
  • primarily: However ritualized the practice may appear, and however stylized, poetry served a primarily communicative function.
  • extremely: Like most people who lead a lonely life, she was shy at first, but ended by becoming extremely communicative.
  • always: In his Conversation he was affable ( being not puffed by his Learning ) and always communicative of anything he was Master of.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Having said " No, " Mr. Baruch became very communicative on another matter.