What does conversable mean?
Conversable means (of people) Able and inclined to engage in conversation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of people) Able and inclined to engage in conversation..
1792, anonymous, “To Warren Hastings, Esq.,” cited in a letter written by William Cowper to Harriett Hesketh dated 5 May, 1792, in The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., Chichester, 2nd ed., 1803, p. 40, I knew thee young, and of a mind While young, humane, conversable, and kind,
It is proper for a Gentleman […] to be Civil, and Conversible in Discourse, to know Men and Manners.
The elegant Part of mankind […] may be divided into the learned and conversible. […] The conversible World join to a sociable Disposition, and a Taste for Pleasure, an Inclination for the easier and more gentle Exercises of the Understanding,
When I had eaten well and heartily, Brother Ambrose, a hearty conversible Frenchman (for all those who wait on strangers have the liberty to speak), led me to a little room […]
He had a bottle of whisky in one hand, to make himself conversible.
I had […] days when I ached for a conversable girl. The island women were […] dour and sallow-faced, and about as seducible as a Free Church congregation.
[…] it is not the invisible Devil that I am enquiring after, but an appearing conversible Daemon or Evil Spirit […] assuming human Shape, or at least Voice,
[…] a full-grown horse, or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old.
Use conversable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Conversable means (of people) Able and inclined to engage in conversation..
Common synonyms include affable, agreeable, approachable, genial.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1792, anonymous, “To Warren Hastings, Esq.,” cited in a letter written by William Cowper to Harriett Hesketh dated 5 May, 1792, in The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., Chichester, 2nd ed., 1803, p. 40, I knew thee young, and of a mind While young, humane, conversable, and kind,
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