Conversant
[kən'vɜːs(ə)nt] or [kən'vɝsnt]
Definition
(adj.) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; 'conversant with business trends'; 'familiar with the complex machinery'; 'he was familiar with those roads' .
Typed by Edmund--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
(a.) Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
(a.) Concerned; occupied.
(n.) One who converses with another; a convenser.
Inputed by Eunice
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned
ANT:Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant
Editor: Paula
Examples
- The passions, by being too much conversant with earthly objects, can never fix in us a proper composure and acquiescence of mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Philosophers do generally affirm that human knowledge to be most excellent which is conversant among the most excellent things. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Editor: Paula