inconversable, a. ? Obs.
(ɪnkənˈvɜːsəb(ə)l)
Also erron. -ible.
[f. in-3 + converse v. + -able; cf. Sp. inconversable (Guevara, 1539) and conversable.]
Not conversable; † unsociable (obs.); not disposed to converse, uncommunicative.
| 1577 Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 2 If he be inconuersible, they abhorre him [orig. si es inconuersable aborrescenle]. 1611 Cotgr., Insociable, vnsociable, vncompanable, inconuersible. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. i. ii. (1713) 3 He is a Person very inconversable. 1706 Reflex. upon Ridicule 39 They are regarded as inconversable, rough hewn, rude and phantastical. 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xv. (1840) 254 They fled from us, and were altogether inconversible. |
Hence inconˈversableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727).