conversable

English

Etymology

converse + -able

Adjective

conversable (comparative more conversable, superlative most conversable)

  1. Free and pleasant in discourse; agreeable.
    • 1792, Cowper, "To Warren Hastings, Esq."
      While young, humane, conversable, and kind …
  2. Disposed to converse, sociable.
    • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
      When I had eaten well and heartily, Brother Ambrose, a hearty conversable Frenchman (for all those who wait on strangers have the liberty to speak), led me to a little room []
  3. Pertaining to or exhibiting conversation.
    • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 12:
      The evening was quiet and conversable, as Mr. Woodhouse declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella …

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