conversable
Americanadjective
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easy and pleasant to talk with; agreeable.
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able or disposed to converse.
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pertaining to or proper for conversation.
adjective
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easy or pleasant to talk to
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able or inclined to talk
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of conversable
From the Medieval Latin word conversābilis, dating back to 1590–1600. See converse 1, -able
Example Sentences
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I was very agreeably disappointed, when the governor informed, that he only wished to consult me about his watch, and seemed unusually pleasant and conversable.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
I have met with two or three well-informed men of the world, and some lively conversable women; but none of either sex that at all reminded me of the well-educated men and women of Europe.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria
I thought that Miss Brandon, having broken the ice, was henceforth to be a conversable young lady.
From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
In this bower, which was a capacious one, sat a number of sedate, quiet, jolly, conversable fellows, nearly all of whom smoked, and one of whom sketched.
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Webb, Archibald
“He was of a conversable temper,” so he says of himself, “and insatiably curious in the aspects of life, and spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of men and womenkind.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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