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Definition: Conversational |
ConversationalAdjective1. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conversational" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pertaining to a programme or a system that carries on a dialogue with a terminal user, alternately accepting input and then responding to the input in a real-time mode, quickly enough for the user to maintain his train of thought. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COLA | English | Conversational Oriented Language | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ConversationalSynonym: colloquial (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | Adjective: conversing; Verb: interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive, discoursive; chatty; (sociable); colloquial. |
Sociality | Adjective: sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable, cosy, cosey, chatty, conversational; homiletical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conversational |
| English words defined with "conversational": artillery ♦ colloquial ♦ groove ♦ phatic communication, phatic speech ♦ reply, response, rut ♦ thank you, tone, tone of voice ♦ weapon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conversational": ALADIN ♦ CLISP, Comal 80, Conversational LISP, Conversational Monitor System ♦ gilley ♦ lcc ♦ neep-neep ♦ time sharing option. (references) |
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Screenplays | That has to be the best conversational opening I've ever heard. (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.) | |
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Health | Maintain a natural conversational manner appropriate for an adult. (references) | |
The most widely used measure of a sound's strength or amplitude is called "sound level," measured by a sound-level meter in units called "decibels" (dB). For example, the sound level of speech at typical conversational distances is between 65 and 70 dB. There are weaker sounds, still audible, and of course much stronger sounds. (references) | ||
Business | Training in foreign languages tends to focus on theory rather than on conversational fluency, as financial constraints and government regulations limit the number of native-English-speaking teachers. (references) | |
Economic History | Latvia | Naturalization criteria include a conversational knowledge of Latvian, a loyalty oath, renunciation of former citizenship, a ten-year residency requirement, and a knowledge of the Latvian constitution. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Conversational" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conversational" is used about 412 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 412 | 13,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conversational": conversational algebraic language ♦ conversational french ♦ conversational LISP ♦ conversational mode ♦ conversational Monitor System ♦ conversational partner ♦ conversational terminal ♦ conversational tone. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "conversational": non-conversational. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conversational"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | muhabetqar, bisedor (colloquial, interlocutory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تحادثي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разговорен (colloquial, everyday), разговорлив (companionable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 会话. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | povídavý (Gabby, gossipy, narrative, talkative), konverzaèní (interlocutory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konverserende, interaktiv (interactive), dialog-, dialog (dialog, dialogue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conversationeel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مکالمه ای . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vuorovaikutteinen, keskusteleva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conversationnel, interactif, dialogué, de dialogue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dialogorientiert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθομιλούμενοσ (colloquial), ομιλητικόσ (chatty, communicative, homiletic, sleeky, sociable, talkative, vocal), ομιλούμενοσ (spoken), διαλογικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | társalgó (combination room, dayroom, drawing room, foyer, lounge, parlor, parlour, talker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | conversazionale, loquace (chattily, eloquent, Gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, voluble), interattivo, discorsivo (chatty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 대" 형식. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coloayrtysagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onversationalcay conversacional, relativo conversação. (various references) vorbãreţ (chatterbox, garrulous, loquacious, mouthy, talker, telltale), de conversaţie (colloquial, interlocutory). (various references) разговорчивый (communicative, gabby, talkative, talky), разговорный (colloquial). (various references) razgovoran (conversable), konverzacioni, govorni (colloquial, lingual, speaking, spoken, vernacular). (various references) conversacional. (various references) samtals- (colloquial), pratsam (chatty, long-tongued, loquacious, talkative), interaktiv (interactive). (various references) konuşma ile ilgili, konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), güzel konuşan (eloquent, silver-tongued, well spoken). (various references) geplemюek (talkative). (various references) розмовний (chatty, colloquial, idiomatic, idiomatical, interlocutory, vocal), говіркий (chatty, glib, talking), балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conversational": conversationalist, conversationalists, conversationally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conversational" (pronounced kÄ'nversā"shunul) |
| 7 | -s ā" sh u n u l | sensational. |
| 6 | -ā" sh u n u l | aberrational, coeducational, computational, conformational, confrontational, congregational, connotational, denominational, educational, foundational, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, intergenerational, investigational, Invitational, motivational, navigational, occupational, operational, organizational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, situational, transformational, vocational. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | additional, binational, compositional, concessional, conditional, confessional, congressional, constitutional, conventional, correctional, depositional, devotional, dimensional, directional, dysfunctional, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, fractional, functional, institutional, instructional, intentional, international, irrational, jurisdictional, multinational, national, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, optional, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, sectional, supranational, traditional, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: conservational. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: conservation, conversation, conversional. | |
-3 letters: coinventors, covenantors, lacerations, overactions, relocations, renovations, revocations, vacationers. | |
-4 letters: alienators, antinovels, avocations, cantilenas, carnations, carnelians, coinventor, coinvestor, containers, conversant, conversion, cornelians, covenantal, covenantor, crenations, escalation, evocations, incarnates, innovators, laceration, lavatories, nervations, nonelastic, nonvectors, novocaines, octonaries, olecranons, overaction, rationales, relocation, renovation, revocation, senatorial, senatorian, vacationer, vernations, vocational. | |
-5 letters: acroleins, aerations, aleatoric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-v" | |
+2 letters: conversationally. | |
+3 letters: conversationalist. | |
+4 letters: conversationalists. | |
+5 letters: overcentralizations. | |
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