Word Meanings - CONVERSATIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to CONVERSATIONAL)

• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• CONVERSANCY
  Conversance
• CONVERSABLY
  In a conversable manner.
• CONVERSABLE
  Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONVERSE
  to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world,
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• CONVERSATIVE
  Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative. She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. Sir H. Wotton.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• CONVERSANCE
  The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
• CONVERSANT
  1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with
• CONVERSANTLY
  In a familiar manner.
• CONVERSABLENESS
  The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.
• CONVERSATIONISM
  A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
• CONVERSATIONAL
  Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• DODECASTYLE
  Having twelve columns in front. -- n.
• POLYSTYLE
  Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.
• CYRTOSTYLE
  A circular projecting portion.
• SUBSTYLE
  A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane
• OCTASTYLE
  See OCTOSTYLE
• PENTASTYLE
  Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.
• DECASTYLE
  Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n.