Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not conversable; uncommunicative; unsocial; reserved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved.
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- adjective obsolete
uncommunicative ;reserved
Etymologies
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in- + conversable
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Examples
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He was like so many taciturn Spaniards, not inconversable, and we had a pleasure in his unobtrusive intelligence which I should be sorry to exaggerate.
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He was like so many taciturn Spaniards, not inconversable, and we had a pleasure in his unobtrusive intelligence which I should be sorry to exaggerate.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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