conversant Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
familiar.
- conversant with business trends
- familiar with the complex machinery
- he was familiar with those roads

L. conversans, p.pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant.

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden.

he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope.

Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper.
Concerned; occupied.
Education . . . is conversant about children. W. Wotton.