writative

English

Etymology

From write, possibly modelled on talkative.

Adjective

writative (comparative more writative, superlative most writative)

1. (archaic, rare) Inclined to much writing.
   • 1736, August 17, Alexander Pope, letter LXXXII to Jonathan Swift, pages 247–248:

     I Find, tho’ I have leſs experience than you, the truth of what you told me ſome time ago, that increaſe of years makes men more talkative but leſs writative: to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain buſineſs, or plain how-d’ye’s, to thoſe few I am forced to correſpond with, either out of neceſſity, or love: And I grow Laconic even beyond Laconiciſme; for ſometimes I return only Yes, or No, to queſtionary or petitionary Epiſtles of half a yard long.

References

• “writative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.