different between conversible vs communicative

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

1. (archaic) Capable of being converted.

   Synonym: convertible

   • a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96,^[1]

     [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all.

   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 127,^[2]

     “But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?”

     “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […] ”

2. (obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).

   Synonym: interchangeable

   • 1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart, London: Thomas Simmons, p. 78,^[3]

     Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.

   • 1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 55,^[4]

     [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —

Etymology 2

converse +? -ible

Adjective

conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

1. Alternative form of conversable

English

Etymology

From Middle French communicatif.

Adjective

communicative (comparative more communicative, superlative most communicative)

1. Eager to communicate; talkative.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Adjective

communicative

1. feminine singular of communicatif

Latin

Adjective

comm?nic?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of comm?nic?t?vus