conversational
/ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Easy in conversation, chatty.
adj
Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
adj
Example Sentences
- "...and her object being to procure Helen's smiles for the marquis, and the marquis's suffrage for Helen, the gay and the handsome were much less in request than the highly respectable, the agreeable, and the conversational; and, with her usual far-seeing cares, she carried her object completely, save in the case of the marquis, who did not reascend the stairs."
- "This light conversational opening struck Miss Frensham as rather an unpropitious way of grappling with the problem of the theft, but she had just professed her general willingness."
- "The patient is awake and conversational."
- "My aim is to become conversational in German."
- "2009, Journal of American Indian Education, Volumes 48-49, Center for Indian Education, page 35, This is the only way, she believes, students will become conversational enough in Navajo to pass on the language (NLА fieldnotes, July 2005)."
- "The colorful responses from BlenderBot show the limitations of building automated conversational tools, which are typically trained on large amounts of public online data."
Etymology
From conversation + -al.
Inflected Forms
more conversational (comparative)
most conversational (superlative)