Conversational
41conversational — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. In the style of conversation: chatty, colloquial, confabulatory, informal. See WORDS. 2. Given to conversation: chatty, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble. Slang: gabby. See WORDS …
42conversational — con·ver sa·tion·al || ‚kÉ‘nvÉ™(r) seɪʃənl / kÉ’n adj. of or pertaining to a conversation …
43conversational — a. Colloquial …
44conversational — adj 1. colloquial, interlocutory, confabulatory, discoursive. 2. communicative, expansive, open, free, unrestrained, unreserved, unreticent, conversable; frank, candid, straightforward, unsecretive; talkative, loquacious, garrulous, voluble,… …
45conversational — con·ver·sa·tion·al …
46conversational — /kɒnvəˈseɪʃənəl/ (say konvuh sayshuhnuhl) adjective 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of, conversation. 2. able, or ready to converse; given to conversation. –conversationally, adverb …
47conversational — adj. 1 of or in conversation. 2 fond of or good at conversation. 3 colloquial. Derivatives: conversationally adv …
48conversational implicature — Philos., Ling. an inference that can be drawn from an utterance, as from one that is seemingly illogical or irrelevant, by examining the degree to which it conforms to the canons of normal conversation and the way it functions pragmatically… …
49conversational quality — (in public speaking) a manner of utterance that resembles the spontaneity and informality of relaxed personal conversation. * * * …
50conversational implicature — See implicature …