converse as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
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converse
noun
1 converse
A proposition obtained by conversion.
Roget 588:
conversation,
interlocution;
collocution†,
colloquy,
converse,
confabulation,
talk,
discourse,
verbal intercourse;
oral communication,
commerce;
dialogue,
duologue,
trialogue.
causerie,
chat,
chitchat;
small talk,
table talk,
teatable talk†,
town talk,
village talk,
idle talk;
tattle,
gossip,
tittle-tattle;
babble,
babblement†;
tripotage†,
cackle,
prittle-prattle†,
cancan,
on dit [Fr.];
talk of the town,
talk of the village.
conference,
parley,
interview,
audience,
pourparler;
tete-a-tete;
reception,
conversazione [It];
congress
etc.
(council)
696;
powwow [U.S.].
hall of audience,
durbar†.
palaver,
debate,
logomachy†,
war of words.
gossip,
tattler;
Paul Pry;
tabby;
chatterer
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
interlocutor
etc.
(spokesman)
582;
conversationist†,
dialogist†.
the feast of reason and the flow of soul"
[Pope];
mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].
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verb
1 converse
Carry on a conversation.
synonym: discourse.
Roget 588:
talk together,
converse,
confabulate;
hold on a conversation,
carry on a conversation,
join in a conversation,
engage in a conversation;
put in a word;
shine in conversation;
bandy words;
parley;
palaver;
chat,
gossip,
tattle;
prate
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
powwow [U.S.].
discourse with,
confer with,
commune with,
commerce with;
hold converse,
hold conference,
hold intercourse;
talk it over;
be closeted with;
talk with one in private,
tete-a-tete.
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Dutch: converseren, onderhouden
adjective
1 converse
Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other.
Roget 14:
contrary,
contrarious†,
contrariant†;
opposite,
counter,
dead against;
converse,
reverse;
opposed,
antithetical,
contrasted,
antipodean,
antagonistic,
opposing;
conflicting,
inconsistent,
contradictory,
at cross purposes;
negative;
hostile
etc.
703.
differing toto coelo [Lat.];
diametrically opposite;
diametrically opposed;
as opposite as black and white,
as opposite as light and darkness,
as opposite as fire and water,
as opposite as the poles;
as different as night and day;
Hyperion to a satyr"
[Hamlet];
quite the contrary,
quite the reverse;
no such thing,
just the other way,
tout au contraire [Fr.].
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Roget 237:
opposite;
reverse,
inverse;
converse,
antipodal,
subcontrary†;
fronting,
facing,
diametrically opposite.
Northern,
septentrional,
Boreal,
arctic;
Southern,
Austral,
antarctic.
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2 converse
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