People and roles
Synonyms for talkative
Synonyms for talkative: garrulous and expansive. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for talkative
Interchangeable with talkative in this sense
Audited under talkative's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one talkative carries in that sense.
- garrulousadjective, in the sense "fond of talking a great deal"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name talkative as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- expansiveexpansive is an adjective in the sense "friendly and open and willing to talk"
The first group is filed under talkative's own sense. The second reaches talkative from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
fond of talking a great deal
The talkative cab driver chatted nonstop for the entire ride.
The true synonym
garrulous
Same sentence, swapped: The garrulous cab driver chatted nonstop for the entire ride.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for talkative in the sentence quoted.
- silent
- reserved
- withdrawn
Where talkative turns up in the game
talkative is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where talkative is the trap
- aloofadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is remote, in the sense "distant and uninvolved; not friendly or forthcoming in a social setting", and talkative is one of the three tiles that lose.
- openhandedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is generous, in the sense "generous in giving", so talkative is there to be ruled out.
- urbaneadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is suave, in the sense "suave, sophisticated, and socially at ease, especially in refined company", and talkative is on the board beside it.
Play talkative
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so talkative reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from people and roles at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. talkative carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.