Meaning of converse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
   literary, uncountable
2. The opposite or reverse.
3. A surname.
4. Reversed, as in position, order, or action; contrary.
5. A shoe of an American-based brand of that name.
6. Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
7. To engage in spoken exchange:chat, confabulate, discourse, speak, talk.
8. One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
9. Diametrically opposed:antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, antonymic, antonymous, contradictory, contrary, counter, diametric, diametrical, opposing, opposite, polar, reverse.
10. Synonym of transpose.
11. That which is diametrically opposed to another:antipode, antipodes, antithesis, antonym, contrary, counter, opposite, reverse.
12. to talk. It is difficult to converse with people who do not speak your language. gesels يَتَحَدَّث، يُحادِث говоря conversar hovořit sich unterhalten samtale; tale sammen; konversere συζητώconversar, charlar vestlema صحبت کردن keskustella converser לְשׂוֹחֵחַ वार्तालाप करना općiti, družiti se társalog bicara ræða við conversare 語り合う 담화하다 kalbėtis sarunāties berbual converserenføre en samtale, snakke sammenrozmawiać غږیدل conversar a discuta общаться hovoriť občevati razgovarati konversera, sa...
13. the opposite; the contrary. omgekeerde ضِد، نَقيض، عَكْس обратното inverso opak gegenteilig det omvendte; det modsatte το αντίθετο contrario, inverso vastand مخالف؛ معکوس vastakohta contraireהפוך, היפוך विपरीत preobrtanje ellentét kebalikan andstæða contrario 反対 정반대 priešingumas, priešingybė pretstats; pretējais lawannya het omgekeerde det motsatte/omvendte odwrotność معکوس inverso opus; contrar противоположное opak nasprotje obrnut omvänd, motsatt ความตรงกันข้าม karşıtı, zıddı 相反的事物／說法 зворо...
14. omgekeerd بِصورةِ مُناقِضَه، بِصورةِ عَكسيَّـه обратно por outro lado naopak, obráceně umgekehrt omvendt αντίθεταa la inversa ümberpöördult وارونه؛ برعکس vastaavasti à l'inverse לְהֵפֶך उलटा protivan, obrnut, naopak kölcsönösen, viszont, vmivel szemben sebaliknya öfugt; gagnstætt al contrario 逆に 정반대로 priešingai, atvirkščiai pretēji; apgriezti dengan lawannya omgekeerdomvendtodwrotnie چپ por outro lado invers наоборот naopak nasprotno obrnuto omvänt ในทางตรงกันข้าม tam tersine 反觀 протилежно; н...
15. To engage in an exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language. See Synonyms at speak.
16. Archaic To interact socially with others; associate.
    Archaic
17. An interchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language; conversation.

Equivalents

Examples

“Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]”

“[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.”

“She had around her gay converse, in which she had no share; and laughter, in which she was little tempted to join.”

“In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse.”

“[S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.”

“All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.”

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