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Meaning of CONVERSATIONAL

Pronunciation:  `kânvur'seyshunl

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
 
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 Synonyms: colloquial, informal
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Con`ver*sa"tion*al\
(k[o^]n`v[~e]r*s[=a]"sh[u^]n*al), a.
Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing;
as, a conversational style. --Thackeray.
 
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