different between conversationalist vs chatty

English

Etymology

conversational +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nv??se???n?l?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??nv??se???n?l?st/

Noun

conversationalist (plural conversationalists)

1. A person who participates in a conversation.

2. A person skilled in general conversation.

Hyponyms

• deipnosophist

Translations

References

• “conversationalist” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “conversationalist”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN

Anagrams

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English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æti/, [?t?æ?i]
• Rhymes: -æti

Etymology 1

From chat (“informal conversation”) +? -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
2. (informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
3. (computing) Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.

   Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Translations

Etymology 2

From chat (“louse”) +? -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, dated or dialect) Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy.
   • 2014, Ian Robson, “Fenham residents campaign against plans to replace wall with wooden fence”, The Chronicle:

     Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.

Etymology 3

Noun

chatty (plural chatties)

1. Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”)