communicate, v. 1. inform, tell, speak, advise, apprise, notify, give notice to, give word, mention to, point out, bring to one's attention, let know, have one to know, give one to understand, enlighten, clue in; Inf. open [s.o.'s] eyes; announce, publish, proclaim, declare, pronounce, set forth, put forth; convey, relate, put across, get across; say, utter, voice, breathe, enunciate, come out with, blurt out; disclose, reveal, divulge, bring out, make known, uncover, unmask, unveil, lay open.
2. impart, transmit, transfer, pass on or along, hand on, share; diffuse, disseminate, spread; confer, bestow, vouchsafe, grant, accord, allow; offer, extend, proffer, tender, deliver, present; infuse, suffuse, imbue, instill, implant, ingrain, inculcate; (both of disease) infect, afflict with.
3. intercommunicate, interface, interchange, exchange views or opinions or ideas; deal with, have dealings with, have commerce or intercourse with, Inf. have truck with, be in touch or contact with; commune, converse, talk, chat, confabulate, Inf. confab, SI. chin, SI. chew the fat, SI. chew the breeze; raise, reach, come across, get [s.t.] across, get to, make contact with, Inf. contact, get in touch or contact with; correspond, write, epistolize, Inf. drop [s.o.] a line or note; telephone, Inf. phone, call, dial, Chiefly Brit. ring up.
communication, n. 1. announcement, publication, declaration, pronouncement; disclosure, divulgement, revelation; enunciation, articulation, utterance, saying, speaking, voicing; impartation, transmission, transmittance, transference, transfer, conveyance, relation; diffusion, dissemination, spreading; conferral, bestowal, donation, endowment; delivery, presentation, extension, proffer, tender, proposal.
2. intercommunication, interplay, interface, interaction, interchange, intercourse, commerce, dealings, traffic, Inf. truck; conversation, discourse, discussion, colloquy, interlocution, confabulation; communion, community, fellowship, social intercourse; correspondence, contact, touch, connection.
3. information, Inf. info, data, facts, SI. the dope, SI. the scoop, SI. the lowdown; report, account, statement, story; message, dispatch, word, communique, bulletin, flash; letter, missive, epistle, note, line.
4. communications the media, the news media; radio, television, TV, journalism, the press, the Fourth Estate; publishing, newspapers, magazines; film; advertising, publicity, public relations, PR.
communicative, adj. 1. expansive, open, free, unreserved, unrestrained, unreticent, communicatory; frank, candid, straightforward, unsecretive; talkative, loquacious, garrulous, voluble, chatty, SI. gabby; conversational, colloquial, interlocutory, confabulatory; accessible, approachable, conversable, receptive.
2. informative, instructive, educational, enlightening, Inf. eye-opening.
communion, n. 1. sharing, exchange, give and take, cooperation, synergy, interaction, joint participation, collaboration; mutuality, reciprocity, interdependence, sympathy, rapport; harmony, consonance, concert, concord, concordance, accord, accordance, agreement, correspondence.
2. fellowship, togetherness, brotherhood, fraternization; companionship, friendship, friendliness, amity, clubbiness, Inf. chumminess; colleagueship, mateship, comradeship, camaraderie, esprit de corps, sodality; association, consociation, affiliation, alliance, alignment, connection, connectedness, Genetics, linkage; unity, union, unitedness, oneness, fusion.
3. intimacy, familiarity, closeness, relationship; intercommunication, communication, commerce, commune; intercourse, interchange, dialogue, conversa-
communique, n. bulletin, announcement, statement, notice; report, news report, flash; dispatch, telegram, cable, wire, message, communication, aviso.