communicative
pronunciation
How to pronounce communicative in British English:
UK [kəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv]
How to pronounce communicative in American English:
US [kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪv]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to communication
- able or tending to communicate
Word Origin
- communicative (adj.)
- late 14c., "that communicates," from French communicatif, from Latin communicat-, past participle stem of communicare "impart, inform" (see communication). Meaning "talkative" is recorded from 1650s.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Translation is a cross-language and cross-cultural communicative behavior .
- 2. Communicative methodology has gained a central importance in language teaching .
- 3. And disrupt its communicative abilities at the same time .
- 4. The unhappy man is more communicative .
- 5. He learns something from schiller 's aesthetics , seeking to save modernity through further enlightenment of rationality and construction of communicative rationality .