The word "conversationalist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to describe someone who is skilled at conversation or enjoys a conversation. An example sentence is: She is an excellent conversationalist and always has something interesting to say.
Victoria Frith, Newcastle Five people: Picasso, Goya, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and a writer, perhaps I'll say Goethe, because I know he was an interesting conversationalist and I don't know much about him.
Rahul, her shy 37-year old son, is her choice as a future prime minister, above his more outgoing and politically astute younger sister, Priyanka.In private, Mr Gandhi is an intelligent conversationalist, anxious to talk about building a better India.
All? Miss Nakamura would list the accomplishments of a successful geisha: she would have to play musical instruments with feeling, usually the shamisen, a type of guitar, and the tuzumi, a small drum; she would have to sing and dance well and, most important, be a good conversationalist, with a ready flow of stimulating repartee.What about sex? Miss Nakamura considered the word carefully.
He says, frequently, that Holman was a charming conversationalist, an able linguist, a great ladies' man, resourceful and uncomplaining.
A man of many interests and a good conversationalist, Raeburn became a popular member of cultured Edinburgh society.
Clermont-Ferrand, France April 13 , 1794Paris, France Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, (born June 1740?, Clermont, France died April 13 , 1794 Paris), French playwright and conversationalist, famous for his wit, whose maxims became popular bywords during the French Revolution.
His fragments, which are vibrant but not immune to incoherence, express the voice of a conversationalist eager to engage the texts and thought not only of his era, one of the most tumultuous in French history, but of all eras.
Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent, tenacity, and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time.
The other prime source of Johnson's fame, his reputation as a conversationalist of epic genius, rests on the detailed testimony of contemporary memorialists including Burney, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Sir John Hawkins.
"Taylor was not a conversationalist"—neither was Grant—"but on paper he could put his meaning so plainly that there could be no mistaking it.
It makes for an actor who's an engaging conversationalist and who is shot through with a shaft of steel – which also belies an oddly (and for him, aggravating) cuddly image.
