conversely
converse
verb[ I ]
 formaluk /kənˈvɜːs/ us /kənˈvɝːs/
to have a conversation with someone: （和…）交谈
converse withShe's so shy that conversing with her can be pretty hard.她那么害羞，跟她交谈很难。

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to talk to someone
talkA group of men were talking in the street.
speakCould I speak to you privately?
sayI couldn't hear what they were saying.
chatWe were just chatting about the party.
have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall.
chatterThey spent the morning chattering away.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
palaver
pass
patter
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête

converse | American Dictionary

converse
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkɑn·vɜrs/

conversenoun[U] (OPPOSITE)

the opposite:
However, the converse of this theory may also be true.

converse

adjective[ not gradable ]us/kənˈvɜrs, ˈkɑn·vɜrs/
Why can't Keyes make the converse argument about the GOP?
converse
verb[ I ]
us/kənˈvɜrs/

converseverb[I] (TALK)

to talk with someone:
She likes to converse with people from all walks of life.

Examples of converse

converse
Parents sometimes played with the infant, engaged in face-to-face interaction with the infants, or conversed with the recording assistant.
Within the main structure, our informant has heard roosters and turkeys speaking like people and cattle conversing in human language.
Thus, it appears that the two groups were equally interested in conversing about psychological states.
In order to prove the converses of the above results, we need a couple of lemmas.
There is an interesting repor t, however, that a male speaker who has a daughter used khâ when conversing with a younger female.
A male caretaker does not usually use khâ when conversing with a young girl.
He conversed with many ordinary people, including carmen, labourers, farmers, beggars, and paupers.
After rules 1- 4 and their converses have been considered, rules 5 and 6 are applied to identify any indirect enablements and disablements.
They conversed and moved, fell silent and froze, and spoke and moved again.
The sound result is constantly negotiated by several authorial activities, the contributions of which are closely overlapping and conversing with each other.
Neither of the converses of the implications in (8) and (9) is generally derivable.
The girls in my data use you know only when conversing with a boy, apart from the special case analyzed above (ex. 10).
They conversed about their women, their crafts and their social connections.
Peripheral participants are more likely to benefit from overhearing the primary participants if the people conversing know they are there and design their utterances appropriately.
They took it humorously, admiring the way diat we conversed in a totally different language, feeling obviously amused and proud at the same time.
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