conversed; conversing; converses
1
: to exchange thoughts and opinions in spoken words or sign language : talk
We spent a few minutes conversing about the weather.
The leaders were bellowing so loudly that you had to shout to converse with your dinner partner.—Christopher Buckley
2
archaic
: to have acquaintance or familiarity : to become occupied or engaged
… admonished them to study … the universe, to converse with nature, to observe the heavenly influences; …—Robert Ainsworth
… a secluded scholar, living in his study and conversing almost exclusively with books.—Cornelius C. Felton
con·verse
ˈkän-ˌvərs
1
dated
: conversation
… Mrs Walker, like many other mothers, was apt to be more free in converse with her daughter than she was with her son.—Anthony Trollope
Graham Bretton had dined with us that day; he had shone both in converse and looks.—Charlotte Brontë
2
archaic
: social interaction
con·verse
ˈkän-ˌvərs
: something reversed in order, relation, or action: such as
a
: a theorem formed by interchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of a given theorem
b
: a proposition obtained by interchange of the subject and predicate of a given proposition
"No P is S " is the converse of "no S is P. "
con·verse
kən-ˈvərs
ˈkän-ˌvərs
1
: reversed in order, relation, or action
Socrates, while he said that the true tragic writer was also an artist in comedy, did not lay down the converse proposition that the true comic writer is also an artist in tragedy.—Samuel Alexander
2
: being a logical or mathematical converse
the converse theorem
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