Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Able and inclined to engage in conversation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1792, anonymous, “To Warren Hastings, Esq.,” cited in a letter written by William Cowper to Harriett Hesketh dated 5 May, 1792, in The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., Chichester, 2nd ed., 1803, p. 40, I knew thee young, and of a mind While young, humane, conversable, and kind,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: affable, agreeable, approachable, genial, sociable
Antonyms: none provided
Able to be conversed with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720, [...] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed [...] to have spent many houres in study
- 1691, John Hartcliffe, A Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, London: C. Harper, p. 156, Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES [...] The Virtues which adorn and recommend a Man in Conversation [...]
- 1780, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 9, in The American Crisis, and a Letter to Sir Guy Carleton, London: Daniel Isaac Eaton, circa 1796, pp. 211-212, [...] while you, remote from the scene of suffering, had nothing to lose, and as little to dread, the information reached you like a tale of antiquity, in which the distance of time defaces the conception, and changes the severest sorrows into conversable amusement.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conversational
Antonyms: none provided
