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chat·ty

 (chăt′ē)
adj. chat·ti·er, chat·ti·est
1. Inclined to chat; friendly and talkative.
2. Full of or in the style of light informal talk: a chatty letter.

chat′ti·ly adv.
chat′ti·ness n.
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chatty

(ˈtʃætɪ)
adj, -tier or -tiest
1. full of trivial conversation; talkative
2. informal and friendly; gossipy: a chatty letter.
ˈchattily adv
ˈchattiness n
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chat•ty

(ˈtʃæt i)

adj. -ti•er, -ti•est.
1. characterized by a friendly, informal conversational style: a long, chatty letter.
2. given to chatting.
[1755–65]
chat′ti•ly, adv.
chat′ti•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.chatty - full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
voluble - marked by a ready flow of speech; "she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations"
2.chatty - prone to friendly informal communication
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray
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chatty

adjective talkative, informal, effusive, garrulous, gabby (informal), gossipy, newsy (informal) She's quite a chatty person.
quiet, silent, taciturn
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

chatty

adjective
1. Given to conversation:
Slang: gabby.
2. In the style of conversation:
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Translations
مُؤانِس، وَدودمُحِبٌّ للحَديث
hovornýpřátelskýupovídaný
causerendeuformel
puheliassuulas
beszédescsevegõcsevegőfecsegő
í léttum dúrskrafhreyfinn
gevezekonuşkansamimisohbet eder gibi

chatty

[ˈtʃætɪ] ADJ (chattier (compar) (chattiest (superl))) [person] → hablador; [letter] → afectuoso y lleno de noticias; [style] → informal
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chatty

[ˈtʃæti] adj
[style] → familier/ière
[person] → bavard(e)chat-up line [ˌtʃætʌpˈlaɪn] n (British)
That's his usual chat-up line → C'est son entrée en matière habituelle pour draguer.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chatty

adj (+er) persongeschwätzig, schwatzhaft; written in a chatty styleim Plauderton geschrieben
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chatty

[ˈtʃætɪ] adj (person) → ciarliero/a; (style) → familiare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chat

(tʃӕt) past tense past participle ˈchatted verb
to talk in a friendly and informal way. They chatted about the weather.
noun
(a) friendly and informal talk. a chat over coffee; women's chat.
ˈchatty adjective
1. fond of chatting. a chatty old lady.
2. having a friendly style. a chatty letter.
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This week sees some rather serious, sensitive and dreamy, perhaps artistic Scorpios arriving, followed by some chattier Scorpios who'll be such jokers and mad charmers, plus, towards the weekend, a number of real home buddies too!