CONVERSATIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conversational mean? 

• CONVERSATIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONVERSATIONAL has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

  Familiarity information: CONVERSATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVERSATIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

Synonyms:

colloquial; conversational

Context example:

the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English

Similar:

informal (used of spoken and written language)

Derivation:

conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

 Context examples 

Not that I had really thought so, but because my conversational powers were effectually scattered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Mills was conversational for a few minutes, and then, laying down her pen upon “Affection's Dirge”, got up, and left the room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As this was a great deal for the carrier (whose name was Mr. Barkis) to say—he being, as I observed in a former chapter, of a phlegmatic temperament, and not at all conversational—I offered him a cake as a mark of attention, which he ate at one gulp, exactly like an elephant, and which made no more impression on his big face than it would have done on an elephant's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)