🗣️ Talkative 💻 Many small requests

chatty

7.5

Making many small requests that slow a computer or app

adjective
/ˈʧæti/

Specialized

: verboso

Using a chatty protocol can make communication less efficient due to the continuous small requests.

Examples

Less chatty droids.

Blog text (15)
And Google, by deliberate policy, has chosen not to be chatty with users (as in "OK, I'm on it.").

Blog text (31)
But it's a psychological fact that people respond better to polite, short exchanges over the Internet, rather than long, drawn-out, and weirdly chatty emails.

Like Cats & Dogs (2017)
And avoiding A chatty protocol that's just going back and forth constantly, that's also good transmitting and receiving in bursts.
The chatty API sent frequent updates that increased the latency of the application.
Developers often prefer a less chatty interface to improve response times and reduce overhead.

Antonyms

efficient

424 3.0

Able to do tasks well and quickly without wasting time or energy

streamlined

5 4.3

Organized to be simpler and more efficient by removing extra steps

How Chatty

chatty

Specialized

7.5

verbose

7 7.1

sparse

31 5.0

Surface Forms

chatty positive

chattier comparative

chattiest superlative

Morphology

chatty = chat (semi-transparent) = chat + y

Formally built from 'chat' + '-y', but the technical meaning ('many small back-and-forth requests') is a metaphorical extension that is not fully predictable to non-technical learners.

Etymology

Chatty in computing borrows the idea of chat: it describes a system that sends many small back-and-forth messages, like a person who won't stop 'chatting'. That's why a chatty system can slow things down because of all the extra messages.