Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conversible

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-versible
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being converted.

Archaic

adj

Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).

Obsolete

adj

Alternative form of conversable.

Example Sentences

"a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96, [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all."
"“But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”"
"Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of."
"[These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —"
"Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like."

Etymology

From converse + -ible.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: converse

Usage

Inflected Forms

more conversible (comparative) most conversible (superlative)

Synonyms

convertible interchangeable

Questions

What does conversible mean?: Capable of being converted.
Where does conversible come from?: From converse + -ible.

How to pronounce conversible

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