conversationalist

/ˌkɑnvərˈseɪʃənələst/

Other forms: conversationalists

A conversationalist is someone who likes to chat, and is good at it. Conversationalists love to have — surprise! — conversations.

If you’re seated at a long formal dinner party, you hope the person next to you is a great conversationalist or you’re in for a long night. A great conversationalist will tell you interesting things and probably make you laugh. For a conversationalist, chatting and bantering come easily. A conversationalist is witty and clever, like Dorothy Parker. A bad conversationalist would say inappropriate things, like tell you about an infection just as you’re taking a bite of mashed potatoes.

Definitions of conversationalist

1. noun

   someone skilled at conversation
   synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer

   types:

   deipnosophist

   someone skilled at informal chitchat

   conversational partner, interlocutor

   a person who takes part in a conversation

   type of:

   speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer

   someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)