Converse

/kənˈvɜːs/ · verb

Meaning

(formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation..

Definitions by Sense

1. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
2. (followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
3. (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
4. (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
5. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
6. The opposite or reverse.
7. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
8. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

Example Sentences

Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.

We had conversed so often on that subject.

To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.

But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.

Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.

according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety

Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]

[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.

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Antonyms for converse

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Word Forms

• converses
• conversing
• conversed

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