conversant

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /kənˈvɝsənt/

Adjective

conversant

1. closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction
2. familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed

   She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.

   • deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy

   • 1720, Thomas Parnell, corrected by Alexander Pope, "Essay on Homer", published with Pope's translation of the Iliad

     He uses the different dialects […] as one who had been conversant with them all.

3. (obsolete) Concerned; occupied.

   • If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestick duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself.

Translations

• French: à l'aise
• Russian: знако́мый
• Spanish: versado

Noun

conversant (plural conversants)

1. One who converses with another.

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