Converse

Definition:

  • (v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
  • (v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
  • (v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.
  • (n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
  • (n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  • (a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
  • (n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.
  • (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

Compare converse with other words:

converge vs. converse

converse vs. conversed

converse vs. convey

converse vs. convex

converse vs. opposite

converse vs. transverse

antagonistic vs. converse

contrast vs. converse

confess vs. converse

converse vs. intertalk

confer vs. converse

converse vs. save

adverse vs. converse

converse vs. converser

converse vs. mell

converse vs. conversive

commune vs. converse

converse vs. reverse

converse vs. conversing

conversant vs. converse

converse vs. inverse

converse vs. conversely

converse vs. theorem

converse vs. reciprocal

converse vs. proposition

chat vs. converse

converse vs. discourse

converse vs. talk

converse vs. discuss

conversation vs. converse

converse vs. jaw

converse vs. reason

common vs. converse

converse vs. speak