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Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.

The quality of being communicative. Norris.

Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ti…

Imparting or communicating by its own powers.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv.

Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]

Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell.

Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. Milward.

Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. [Obs.]

To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.]

nce; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.