converse
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Is converse a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of converse?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.Examples: "Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together."; "We had conversed so often on that subject."Synonyms: conversate, convo, discourseformalintransitive
2. (followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.Examples: "To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature."; "But to converse with heaven — This is not easy."; "Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions."
3. (obsolete) To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.Examples: "according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.Examples: "Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]"; "[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him."; "She had around her gay converse, in which she had no share; and laughter, in which she was little tempted to join."literaryuncountable
noun (English)
1. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.Examples: "All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true."
2. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
3. (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.Synonyms: transpose
Definition source: Wiktionary