conversant
familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
Archaic. having regular or frequent conversation; intimately associating; acquainted.
Origin of conversant
1Other words for conversant
Other words from conversant
- con·ver·sance, con·ver·san·cy, noun
- con·ver·sant·ly, adverb
- non·con·ver·sance, noun
- non·con·ver·san·cy, noun
- non·con·ver·sant, adjective
- non·con·ver·sant·ly, adverb
- un·con·ver·sant, adjective
Words Nearby conversant
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How to use conversant in a sentence
Now, those machines are becoming conversant in the language of their programmers.
OpenAI’s Codex Translates Everyday Language Into Computer Code | Jason Dorrier | August 15, 2021 | Singularity HubAnd, he says, “Boards and senior executives need to be minimally conversant in some ways about cybersecurity risk and analysis of those metrics.”
Better cybersecurity means finding the “unknown unknowns” | MIT Technology Review Insights | May 26, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn Chicago, Ng became conversant in the advanced statistics that started enveloping– the game at the turn of the century.
How Kim Ng, Major League Baseball's First Female GM, Finally Got the Top Job | Sean Gregory | March 3, 2021 | TimeUnions, she said, could also be tapped to conduct outreach in hard-to-reach communities, including those not conversant in English.
Essential workers get lost in the vaccine scrum as states prioritize the elderly | Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Akilah Johnson | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostEveryone in town is conversant with these calamities, the figures involved and the attendant risks of speaking to the police.
He is as conversant with HTML and Git as with metaphor and the twists and turns of plotting.
Vikram Chandra Is A Novelist Who's Obsessed With Writing Computer Code | Jane Ciabattari | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow, if you are reasonably conversant in our economic debates, you already have some idea of what all this means.
Real Vs. Republican Populism: How to Win the War on Inequality | Michael Tomasky | April 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlmost all French speakers have to do a serious amount of self-study to become conversant, especially when it comes to phonetics.
Here is one place where I wish liberals were more conversant and comfortable speaking in religious and scriptural contexts.
But they dug into the details, and their audiences expected them to be conversant in details.
He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of parables.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousBlessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousHe is thoroughly conversant with questions of taxation and income and the agricultural conditions.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheMoreover, he was honest and sound in heart, and was just and impartial in reference to those facts with which he was conversant.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIreland, so long conversant with misery, was still to taste the cup in all its bitterness.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
British Dictionary definitions for conversant
/ (kənˈvɜːsənt) /
(usually postpositive and foll by with) experienced (in), familiar (with), or acquainted (with)
Derived forms of conversant
- conversance or conversancy, noun
- conversantly, adverb
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