conversable

== English == === Alternative forms === conversible === Etymology === From converse +‎ -able. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === conversable (comparative more conversable, superlative most conversable) (of people) Able and inclined to engage in conversation. Synonyms: affable, agreeable, approachable, genial, sociable 1792, anonymous, “To Warren Hastings, Esq.,” cited in a letter written by William Cowper to Harriett Hesketh dated 5 May, 1792, in The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., Chichester, 2nd ed., 1803, p. 40,[3] I knew thee young, and of a mind While young, humane, conversable, and kind, (of people, obsolete) Able to be conversed with. (of things, obsolete) Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation. Synonym: conversational 1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720,[9] […] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed […] to have spent many houres in study 1691, John Hartcliffe, A Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, London: C. Harper, p. 156,[10] Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES […] The Virtues which adorn and recommend a Man in Conversation […] 1780, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 9, in The American Crisis, and a Letter to Sir Guy Carleton, London: Daniel Isaac Eaton, circa 1796, pp. 211-212,[11] […] while you, remote from the scene of suffering, had nothing to lose, and as little to dread, the information reached you like a tale of antiquity, in which the distance of time defaces the conception, and changes the severest sorrows into conversable amusement. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === conservable