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converse

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 3.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To talk; to engage in conversation.
  2. verb To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
  3. verb To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
  4. noun Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  5. adjective Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
    a converse proposition
  6. noun The opposite or reverse.
  7. noun 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.
    All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.
  8. noun One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

Similar words

discourse antonymous reversed backward transposed talk discuss chat speak interact

Often followed by

with of is in and on about together was

Word family

conversed conversely converser conversers converses conversing

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