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conversant
[ kuhn-vur-suhnt, kon-ver- ]
adjective
- familiar by use or study (usually followed by with ):
conversant with Spanish history.
Synonyms: proficient, well-informed, practiced, skilled, learned, versed
- Archaic. having regular or frequent conversation; intimately associating; acquainted.
conversant
/ kənˈvɜːsənt /
adjective
- usually postpositiveand foll bywith experienced (in), familiar (with), or acquainted (with)
Derived Forms
- conˈversantly, adverb
- conˈversance, noun
Other Words From
- con·versance con·versan·cy noun
- con·versant·ly adverb
- noncon·versance noun
- noncon·versan·cy noun
- noncon·versant adjective
- noncon·versant·ly adverb
- uncon·versant adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of conversant1
Example Sentences
Brands, engages in a discreet laundering of Lindbergh’s views and expertise, such that a reader who is not conversant with historical details might be inclined to accept his version at face value.
Olympians might not be experts in climatology or conversant in all the relevant political arguments surrounding weather trends, but they have a ground-level view.
Working with Jacqueline Ayer, an Acton resident and environmental engineer conversant in the technicalities of the proposed project, Brock marshaled about 40 community members to plead their case at an L.A.
Like me, or so I would like to believe, Mr. Weir seemed to be conversant in the cultures of these two English-speaking settler nations, able, perhaps, to see more clearly the deep grooves and dark shadows of each because he’d had the chance to look from a distant perspective.
And as the first of the new breed, totally conversant with the social media age, he knows managerial techniques of the past on their own will not work any more.
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