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.
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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