adj
Meaning 1
Easy in conversation, chatty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
conversational
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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adj
Meaning 3
Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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adj
Meaning 4
Capable of engaging in conversation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The patient is awake and conversational.
- My aim is to become conversational in German.
- 2009, Journal of American Indian Education, Volumes 48-49, Center for Indian Education, page 35, This is the only way, she believes, students will become conversational enough in Navajo to pass on the language (NLА fieldnotes, July 2005).
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- wrote her letters in a colloquial style
- the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colloquial
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From conversation + -al.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: размо́ўны (razmówny) — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Bulgarian: разгово́рен (razgovóren) — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Chinese Mandarin: 會話式的 /会话式的 — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Finnish: keskustelu- — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Finnish: puhe- — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- French: conversationnel — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Hungarian: beszélgetési — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Hungarian: társalgási — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Irish: comhráiteach — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Italian: conversazionale — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Macedonian: разговорен (razgovoren) — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Polish: konwersacyjny — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Romanian: conversațional — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Russian: разгово́рный (razgovórnyj) — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Serbo-Croatian: rȁzgovōrnī — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Serbo-Croatian: konverzácījskī — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Slovene: pogóvoren — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Spanish: conversacional — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Ukrainian: розмо́вний (rozmóvnyj) — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Volapük: spikotik — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Volapük: spikotafomik — of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty
- Chinese Mandarin: 交互式的 — (computing) involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server
- Finnish: keskustelu- — (computing) involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server
- Romanian: conversațional — (computing) involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server
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