MEANING
1. Reversed in order or relationship; as a noun, the opposite or reverse relation.
2. A conditional statement formed by exchanging its original condition and conclusion.
3. Have a conversation with another person, usually through an exchange of spoken remarks.
Use it for
reversing the direction of a comparison; distinguishing a relationship from its reversal; showing that an inference does not automatically work backwardDistinguishes reversing a relationship or conditional from merely denying it. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast, Argumentation.
Words that belong together
- converse relation
- the converse is not true
- converse proposition
On the page
The essay shows that prestige can increase visibility without establishing the converse relationship.
The converse of the critic’s account places social change before literary innovation rather than after it.
If all novels in the sample are translations, the converse would say that all translations are novels in the sample.
The converse of a true conditional need not be true: being eligible does not necessarily mean being selected.
Participants could converse with one another before the group interview began.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- converse
- Past tense
- conversed
- Past participle
- conversed
- Present participle
- conversing
Usage notes
Adjective and count noun: converse relation; a converse, converses. Intransitive verb: converse with someone about something. Third-person converses; past and past participle conversed; present participle conversing. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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