as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
a talky coworker who will corner you at your desk for hours with stories about his vacation
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Recent Examples of talky
Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Written by Ed Solomon, who collaborated with Soderbergh on the twisty neo-noir No Sudden Move as well as the TV series Mosaic and Full Circle, the film is a talky chamber piece that’s virtually a two-hander and could just as easily have been a play.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
An early scene, a party at the home of an up-for-tenure Yale professor played by Julia Roberts, is filled with that kind of thinky-talky dialogue.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
Instead, the film is haunted and strikingly talky, with the young men working together to stay distracted and keep their dignity as they are killed off one by one.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Written by Ed Solomon, who collaborated with Soderbergh on the twisty neo-noir No Sudden Move as well as the TV series Mosaic and Full Circle, the film is a talky chamber piece that’s virtually a two-hander and could just as easily have been a play.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
An early scene, a party at the home of an up-for-tenure Yale professor played by Julia Roberts, is filled with that kind of thinky-talky dialogue.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
Instead, the film is haunted and strikingly talky, with the young men working together to stay distracted and keep their dignity as they are killed off one by one.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for talky
Adjective
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Donovan is talkative, bubbly and outgoing, while Juan is more of a listener.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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The fourth graders were talkative, but focused.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Recorded at Glendale’s UHF Studio, Davis worked closely with producer-bassist Dan Horne and guitarist John Lee Shannon, inaugurating a new songwriting partnership—one that trades the solitary melancholia of her earlier albums for something more open-ended and conversational.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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Participatory Journalism Here, facilitated by technological advances and participatory culture, journalists are seen to move from a hierarchical model of information disseminators to a more horizontal model based on audience participation and conversational modes of communication.—
Daniel Jackson,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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