overchatty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion."
- "[Leonard Jimmie] Savage: Does it suffice to maintain some inanimate acoustical contact or is actual talking preferable? [Joseph Carl Robnett] Licklider: I have heard that the pilots don’t like the operators to be overchatty. They would just as soon not have that."
- "The sunny quiet of Sag Harbor, and Bud’s own talent for tranquillity were a refuge to Father from too many overchatty elderly dames at the Algonk, and he sank into it like a tired child into a feather bed."
Etymology
From over- + chatty.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Usage
Inflected Forms
more overchatty (comparative)
most overchatty (superlative)