conversationalist

noun

con·​ver·​sa·​tion·​al·​ist ˌkän-vər-ˈsā-shnə-list 

-shə-nᵊl-ist

: one who converses a great deal or who excels in conversation

a witty conversationalist

Synonyms

• babbler
• blabber
• blabbermouth
• blowhard
• cackler
• chatterbox
• chatterer
• gabbler
• gasbag
• jabberer
• jay
• magpie
• motormouth
• prattler
• talker
• windbag

Examples of conversationalist in a Sentence

She's not much of a conversationalist.

she's a compulsive conversationalist, so I try to avoid her at the end of the work day

Recent Examples on the Web

Good conversationalists know how to keep a conversation alive. —Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024

Taking their place are hosts and personalities — skilled conversationalists and entertainers who get their facts elsewhere. —Neal Rothschild, Axios, 18 Nov. 2024

Then, Hersh’s father Jon Polin took the podium, sketching out a portrait of his son as a wise, inquisitive, kind and gentle soul who was a top-tier conversationalist and an engine of justice in the family and beyond. —Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024

And yet, for most of the last 65 years, AI’s successes have resembled neither Turing’s conversationalists nor Asimov’s humanoids. —Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016

Word History

Etymology

see conversation

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

conversationalist

noun

con·​ver·​sa·​tion·​al·​ist ˌkän-vər-ˈsā-shnə-ləst 

-shən-ᵊl-əst

: a person who is fond of or good at conversation