conversable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.04 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Able and inclined to engage in conversation.
Example Sentences
- "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,"
- "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,"
- "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."