TALKY Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

talky

adjective

ˈtȯ-kē

Definition of talky

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 Some dismiss Ryan's talkier stretches as Greatest Generation veneration. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 Swanberg has now gone from someone making talky, provocative and at times controversial films about the lives of post-collegiate 20-somethings to exploring the nuances and specifics of being a 44-year-old divorced father of two still trying to figure out his place in the world. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2026 This talky dramedy finds the film’s three top-tier actors Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider marooned just off the New England coast in 1974. — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for talky

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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.

— Owen Lamont, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Doing this kind of work with other talkative animals, such as dolphins, would be much more difficult.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026

Definition of talkative

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The deployment introduced an agent layer that could access the underlying systems, prepare inputs for the appropriate optimization approach, interpret outputs in plain language and surface recommendations through conversational and web interfaces.

— Valentyn Kropov, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Some startups — like HereAfter AI, Storyfile, and Eternos — offer services like video avatars and conversational AI trained on a deceased person’s data.

— Ella Chakarian, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026

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