Conversational
[kɒnvə'seɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [,kɑnvɚ'seʃənl]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Colloquial.
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Examples
- The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When he emerged from legal infancy, returned Mr. Skimpole, he parted from our conversational friend Kenge and took up, I believe, with Vholes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No, governor,' returned Riderhood, in a cheerful, affable, and conversational manner, 'you did not tell me so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This immense conversational achievement required time, but was effected. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not that I had really thought so, but because my conversational powers were effectually scattered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Conversational and acquiescent on both sides. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Mills was conversational for a few minutes, and then, laying down her pen upon 'Affection's Dirge', got up, and left the room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mrs. Sparsit was in good spirits, and inclined to be conversational. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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