converse

converse is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
2. intransitive 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. intransitive verb. To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.
4. noun. Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
5. noun. Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
6. adjective. Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
7. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. a proposition obtained by conversion
10. verb. carry on a conversation

    Synonyms: discourse

11. adjective. turned about in order or relation

    "transposed letters"

    Synonyms: reversed, transposed

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

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

Synonyms

discourse, reversed, transposed

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in converse:

conserve

Common word forms

conversed, converser, converses, conversely, conversing

Words from these letters

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