Converse

Quick meaning: Converse is a verb meaning (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
2. (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
3. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
4. The opposite or reverse.
5. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

Example Sentences

We had conversed so often on that subject.

But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.

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

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

Word Forms

• converses
• conversing
• conversed

Synonyms for converse

Depending on context, synonyms include chat, common, confab, confabulate, conversate, convo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discourse, antonymous, reversed, backward, transposed, talk.

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