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as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
the antiques dealer is not the conversational sort, so customers should not expect any impromptu chats
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as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
struck a very conversational tone in his reports of his travels through foreign countries
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as in vernacular
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
uses conversational language instead of more stilted expressions in her campaign speeches
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Recent Examples of conversational
Following openers Chanel Beads and The Japanese House, the New Zealand singer delivered a liberated 90-minute set fueled by her breathy, conversational vocals and raw, unpredictable movements.
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Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Smith landed a teaching position at an eikaiwa, a private language school focused on conversational English, in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan and moved in March of this year.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
This will now be paired with Paradox’s conversational AI for frontline workers and Flowise’s AI agent-building capabilities.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Don’t be afraid to try something new - avoid getting stuck in conversational thinking.
—Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Lawmakers are demanding clearer accountability as more users turn to conversational AI for guidance.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
While YouTube and Instagram can potentially analyze faces, posting patterns, and social networks to determine age, ChatGPT must rely solely on conversational text, which can be an unreliable signal of user age.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Sep. 2025
Eventually, Smith landed a teaching position at an eikaiwa, a private language school focused on conversational English, in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan and moved in March of this year.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
This will now be paired with Paradox’s conversational AI for frontline workers and Flowise’s AI agent-building capabilities.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Don’t be afraid to try something new - avoid getting stuck in conversational thinking.
—Jason Walker Psyd, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Lawmakers are demanding clearer accountability as more users turn to conversational AI for guidance.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
While YouTube and Instagram can potentially analyze faces, posting patterns, and social networks to determine age, ChatGPT must rely solely on conversational text, which can be an unreliable signal of user age.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversational
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After all, for seven seasons, Graham and Bledel starred as the unstoppable (and oh-so-talkative) mother-daughter duo of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, the two besties at the center of Stars Hollow, a small Connecticut town with a very big personality.—
Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Sep. 2025
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Harjo understands better than all but a few of his star’s previous collaborators how to weaponize Hawke’s gift for playing talkative dirtbags who are equal parts insufferable and charming.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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But unlike the evolution of colloquial language, which is largely arbitrary, the evolution of scientific terms must reflect our current understanding of reality.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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In a market where there is a colloquial term for consumers who want their spirits bottled at the highest strength possible (proof hounds), this low-strength whiskey is a bold move.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Once again, his use of vernacular and social media address appeared to be mocking the President’s own style.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Whitney Decker told the detective her ex-husband had always been communicative about their children and previously returned them when he was supposed to.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
19 Sep. 2025
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Communicate And Collaborate On AI Usage Rules Be collaborative and communicative.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Conversational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversational. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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