Word Meanings - CONVERSANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with

Additional info about word: CONVERSANT

1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. 2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper. 3. Concerned; occupied. Education . . . is conversant about children. W. Wotton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVERSANT)

• Experienced
• Skilled
• practiced
• familiar
• accustomed
• conversant
• Familiar
• Household
• common
• free
• frank
• affable
• everyday
• well-acquainted
• intimate
• Intimate \adj Close
• exact
• nice
• near
• friendly
• Learned
• Conversant
• erudite
• read
• skilled
• scholarly
• literary
• knowing
• well-informed
• versed
• Proficient
• Expert
• clever
• practised
• trained
• advanced
• skilful
• competent
• well qualified

Related words: (words related to CONVERSANT)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• OVERSHOT
  From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.