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conversible

adj

Etymology

From converse + -ible.

  1. derived from conversor — “live, have dealings with”
  2. derived from converser
  3. suffixed as conversible — “converse + ible”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being converted.

    • “But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”

  2. Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).

    • Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.
    • [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —

  3. Alternative form of conversable.

    • Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for conversible. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA