conversable
English
Etymology
Adjective
conversable (comparative more conversable, superlative most conversable)
- Free and pleasant in discourse; agreeable.
- 1792, Cowper, "To Warren Hastings, Esq."
- While young, humane, conversable, and kind …
- 1792, Cowper, "To Warren Hastings, Esq."
- 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 […]
- 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 …