converse
verb
conversed;
conversing
Definition of converse
(Entry 1 of 4)
1
: to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk
spent a few minutes conversing about the weather The leaders were bellowing so loudly that you had to shout to converse with your dinner partner.— Christopher Buckley
2 archaic
a
: to have acquaintance or familiarity
b
: to become occupied or engaged
converse
noun (1)Definition of converse (Entry 2 of 4)
1
dated
: conversation
… Mrs Walker, like many other mothers, was apt to be more free in converse with her daughter than she was with her son.— Anthony Trollope Graham Bretton had dined with us that day; he had shone both in converse and looks.— Charlotte Brontë
2
archaic
: social interaction
converse
noun (2)Definition of converse (Entry 3 of 4)
: something reversed in order, relation, or action: such as
a
: a theorem formed by interchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of a given theorem
b
: a proposition obtained by interchange of the subject and predicate of a given proposition
"No P is S " is the converse of "no S is P. "
converse
adjectiveDefinition of converse (Entry 4 of 4)
1
: reversed in order, relation, or action
Socrates, while he said that the true tragic writer was also an artist in comedy, did not lay down the converse proposition that the true comic writer is also an artist in tragedy.— Samuel Alexander
2
: being a logical or mathematical converse
the converse theorem
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