What is another word for conversationalist?

Pronunciation: [kɒnvəsˈe͡ɪʃənəlˌɪst] (IPA)

A conversationalist is someone who is skilled at engaging in conversations. Many synonyms exist that can be used in place of the word conversationalist, including communicator, interlocutor, dialogue partner, converser, and talker. Other options include raconteur, debater, discusser, orator, and chatelaine. Each of these words brings a slightly different nuance to the idea of someone who loves to talk and engage with others. Some may have a more formal or academic connotation, while others suggest a more informal and relaxed conversational style. No matter what word is used, the idea remains the same: a conversationalist is someone who knows how to engage others in lively and interesting discussion.

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Usage examples for Conversationalist

But you are not very much of a conversationalist.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
He was a brilliant conversationalist.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
He must be a conversationalist.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch

Famous quotes with Conversationalist

  • A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    John Mason Brown
  • Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
    Carrie Fisher
  • Paying a fee to audition for a casting assistant in order to 'demystify the casting process' is like paying a hooker to become a better conversationalist.
    Billy DaMota
  • For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws.
    Ray Bradbury
  • Those who, like the present writer, never had the privilege of meeting Sidgwick can infer from his writings, and still more from the characteristic philosophic merits of such pupils of his as McTaggart and Moore, how acute and painstaking a thinker and how inspiring a teacher he must have been. Yet he has grave defects as a writer which have certainly detracted from his fame. His style is heavy and involved, and he seldom allowed that strong sense of humour, which is said to have made him a delightful conversationalist, to relieve the uniform dull dignity of his writing. He incessantly refines, qualifies, raises objections, answers them, and then finds further objections to the answers. Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders, and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author. But the reader is apt to become impatient; to lose the thread of the argument: and to rise from his desk finding that he has read a great deal with constant admiration and now remembers little or nothing. The result is that Sidgwick probably has far less influence at present than he ought to have, and less than many writers, such as Bradley, who were as superior to him in literary style as he was to them in ethical and philosophical acumen. Even a thoroughly second-rate thinker like T. H. Green, by diffusing a grateful and comforting aroma of ethical "uplift", has probably made far more undergraduates into prigs than Sidgwick will ever make into philosophers.
    C. D. Broad

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