Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not conversant; not acquainted or familiar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.

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  • adjective Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ conversant

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Examples

  • I shall only say, that those who are inconversant with these objects of faith — whose minds are not delighted in the admiration of, and acquiescence in, things incomprehensible, such as is this constitution of the person of

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • All Metford's employees, with the exception of Dave, were foreigners, more or less inconversant with the English language.

    The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

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