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
- conversableness noun
- conversably adverb
- nonconversable adjective
- nonconversableness noun
- nonconversably adverb
- unconversable adjective
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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Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage.
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
The women do not seem of the same country: if they are less gay than they were, they are more informed, enough to make them very conversable.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
This done, he rejoined Marlow and Emily, and to all appearance was more cheerful and conversable than he had been for many a previous day.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
Well, well, who would have thought that so conversable and intelligent a creature should have come to such a melancholy end?”
From The Gorilla Hunters by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
My niece, a charming and interesting young person and most conversable, stays, I hope, through the greater part of September, and I even curse that necessary limit—when she returns to America....
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
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