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conversational, a.|kɒnvəˈseɪʃənəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of persons: Ready to converse; addicted to conversation; gifted with powers of conversation.
1799Southey Lett. (1856) I. 78 Without being talkative I am conversational. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. l, Although Tom and his sister were extremely conversational, they were less lively.
2. Of, belonging to, or proper to conversation.
1779F. Burney Diary (1842) I. 293 His conversational powers. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXII. 286 That tone..which confers on the women of England a high conversational rank. 1861Wright Ess. Archaeol. II. xxii. 221 Provençal was degraded to be the mere conversational dialect of the vulgar. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 337 The conversational manner, the seeming want of arrangement..are found to result in a perfect work of art. |