[f. prec. + -IST. Cf. nationalist, agriculturalist.] One who is conversational; one who excels in conversation. Cf. CONVERSATIONIST.
1836. Hor. Smith, Tin Trump. (1876), 105. English Women are in general better conversationalists than the men.
1884. J. Payn, Canon’s Ward, II. 265. An eminent conversationalist living by himself is a deplorable spectacle.
