Communicates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Shares or exchanges information, thoughts, or feelings with others
2. Conveys messages or ideas between people or groups
3. Transmits or expresses information to ensure mutual understanding

Etymology: The verb "communicates" is simply the third-person singular present form of "communicate," so its history is the history of the verb. That verb reaches back to Latin "commūnicāre," meaning to share, impart, or make something common, built from "commūnis," the word for "common." Its Latin root gives a clue to the modern sense: to communicate is, at heart, to make something shared between people. English took the word in the Middle English period through a borrowing from the Latin past participle "commūnicātus," and it arrived in a form still close to its Latin source. The earliest English sense was closer to sharing things, or sharing in a religious rite, than to passing along news. Only later did the meaning drift toward exchanging messages and ideas, which is the sense used today.

Synonyms: conveys, transmits, relays, expresses, articulates

Antonyms: conceals, withholds, suppress, obscures, silences