converse

Definitions

1. 1intransitive verb

   To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

2. 2intransitive verb

   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.

3. 3intransitive verb

   To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

4. 4noun

   Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.

5. 5noun

   Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

6. 6adjective

   Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

7. 7noun

   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.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

   a proposition obtained by conversion

10. 10verb

    carry on a conversation

    Synonyms

    discourse
11. 11adjective

    turned about in order or relation

    "transposed letters"

    Synonyms

    reversedtransposed
12. 12adjective

    of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other

    "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"