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conversational

/ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/

conversational adjective: easy in conversation, chatty.

Adjective

conversational (comparative more conversational, superlative most conversational)

  1. Easy in conversation, chatty.
    • ...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...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160
  2. Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
    • 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.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
  3. Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
  4. Capable of engaging in conversation.
    • The patient is awake and conversational.
    • My aim is to become conversational in German.

conversational meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

conversational in Hindi

conversational, colloquial
सांवादिक sāmvādik

conversational in Tamil

உரையாடு

conversational in Marathi

संवादात्मक, संभाषणात्मक

conversational in Urdu

باتونی, بول چال کا, مکالماتی
More languagesFewer languages
conversational in Bengali
কথোপকথনমূলক
conversational in Malayalam
സംസാര, സംഭാഷണരൂപത്തിലുള്ള, അനൗപചാരികമായ, സംഭാഷണപരമായ
conversational in Gujarati
સંવાદાત્મક
conversational in Sanskrit
सांवादिक sāṃvādika
conversational in Nepali
संवादात्मक

Examples of conversational in a sentence

  • I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.
  • The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place.
  • We think of locutors' interactions as exchanges of conversational objects (COs).

All 15 example sentences with conversational

Forms of conversational

comparativemore conversational
superlativemost conversational

Origin of conversational

From conversation + -al.

Words formed from conversational

Phrases with conversational

Questions about conversational

What does conversational mean?
Conversational means easy in conversation, chatty.
What is conversational in Hindi?
Conversational in Hindi is सांवादिक (sāmvādik). See Conversational meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is conversational?
Conversational is an adjective.
How do you pronounce conversational?
Conversational is pronounced /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/.

Words near conversational in the dictionary

  1. conversation sets
  2. conversation stopper
  3. conversation-stopper
  4. conversation-stoppers
  5. conversationable
  6. conversational
  7. conversational commerce
  8. conversational journal
  9. conversational journaling
  10. conversational journals
  11. conversational partner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: conversational (page history and authors); सांवादिक (Hindi) (page history and authors); conversational (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conversational (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conversational (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conversational (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conversational (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conversational (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); सांवादिक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); conversational (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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