communicative
communicative
Definition
com·mu·ni·ca·tive (kə myo̵̅o̅′ni kāt′iv, -ni kə tiv)
adjective
- giving information readily; forthcoming
- of communication
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.
Browse dictionary entries near communicative
- communications software
- Communications Intelligence
- Communications Decency Act
- Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
- Communications Act of 1962
- Communications Act of 1934
- communications
- Communication Networks
- communication manager
