conversant

[ kuhn-vur-suhnt, kon-ver- ]

/ kənˈvɜr sənt, ˈkɒn vər- /

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adjective

familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.

Archaic. having regular or frequent conversation; intimately associating; acquainted.

OTHER WORDS FOR conversant

1 versed, learned, skilled, practiced, well-informed, proficient.

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Origin of conversant

1250–1300; Middle English conversa(u)nt<Latin conversant- (stem of conversāns), present participle of conversārī to associate with. See converse¹, -ant

OTHER WORDS FROM conversant

con·ver·sance, con·ver·san·cy, nouncon·ver·sant·ly, adverbnon·con·ver·sance, nounnon·con·ver·san·cy, noun

non·con·ver·sant, adjectivenon·con·ver·sant·ly, adverbun·con·ver·sant, adjective

Words nearby conversant

convergent evolution, convergent plate boundary, convergent thinking, converging lens, conversable, conversant, conversate, conversation, conversational, conversational implicature, conversationalist

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 Hub
And, 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 Review
In 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|Time
Unions, 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 Post

Everyone in town is conversant with these calamities, the figures involved and the attendant risks of speaking to the police.
Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’|Ron Charles|December 2, 2020|Washington Post
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|DAILY BEAST
Now, 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|DAILY BEAST
Almost all French speakers have to do a serious amount of self-study to become conversant, especially when it comes to phonetics.
Why Can’t France Learn English?|David Sessions|March 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Here is one place where I wish liberals were more conversant and comfortable speaking in religious and scriptural contexts.
About Mourdock's Theology|Michael Tomasky|October 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But they dug into the details, and their audiences expected them to be conversant in details.
Candidates the GOP Deserves|Michael Tomasky|November 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of parables.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Blessed 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|Various
He 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 Christophe
Moreover, 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 Lord
Ireland, 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

conversant

/ (kənˈvɜːsənt) /

adjective

(usually postpositive and foll by with) experienced (in), familiar (with), or acquainted (with)

Derived forms of conversant

conversance or conversancy, nounconversantly, adverb

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