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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, harmonious |
| Synonyms: | coinciding, compatible, concurring, conforming, consistent, corresponding, identical, in agreement |
| Notes: | congruent means 'agreeing or corresponding with' in a strict, technical sense while congruous indicates that the correspondence is looser, more general |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, incongruent, unharmonious |
| Main Entry: | congruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corresponding, suitable |
| Synonyms: | accordant, appropriate, apt, becoming, coincidental, compatible, concordant, congruent, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, harmonious, meet, proper, seemly, sympathetic |
| Notes: | congruent means 'agreeing or corresponding with' in a strict, technical sense while congruous indicates that the correspondence is looser, more general |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, incongruous, unfitting, unharmonious, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | logical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | probable, reasonable |
| Synonyms: | analytic, analytical, clear, cogent, coherent, commonsensical, compelling, congruent, consequent, consistent, convincing, deducible, discerning, discriminating, extensional, fair, germane, holding together, holding water, inferential, intelligent, judicious, juridicious, justifiable, kosher*, legit, legitimate, lucid, most likely, necessary, obvious, perceptive, perspicuous, pertinent, plausible, rational, relevant, sensible, sound, subtle, telling, valid, well-organized, wise |
| Antonyms: | illogical, improbable, irrational, unlikely, unreasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relevant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; to the purpose |
| Synonyms: | accordant, ad rem, admissible, allowable, applicable, applicatory, apposite, appurtenant, apt, becoming, cognate, compatible, concerning, conformant, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, correlated, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, harmonious, having direct bearing on, having to do with, important, material, on the button, on the nose, pat, pertaining to, pertinent, pointful, proper, referring, related, relative, significant, suitable, suited, to the point, weighty |
| Notes: | germane and relevant indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material means pertinent and necessary relevant means 'worthy of raising in the context of discussion'; pertinent means 'applicable to the point at issue' |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, irrelevant, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | similar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very much alike |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, allied, analogous, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, companion, comparable, complementary, congruent, congruous, consonant, consubstantial, correlative, corresponding, homogeneous, identical, in agreement, kin, kindred, like, matching, much the same, parallel, reciprocal, related, resembling, same, twin, uniform |
| Antonyms: | alien, different, dissimilar, opposite, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | united |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | combined; in agreement |
| Synonyms: | affiliated, agreed, allied, amalgamated, assembled, associated, banded, coadunate, cognate, collective, concerted, concordant, confederated, congruent, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, consolidated, cooperative, corporate, federal, homogeneous, hooked up, in accord, in cahoots, incorporated, integrated, joined up, leagued, like-minded, lined up, linked, of one mind, of the same opinion, one, plugged in, pooled, tied in, unanimous, undivided, unified, unitary |
| Antonyms: | divided, separated |
| Main Entry: | agreeing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | be agreeable or suitable |
| Synonyms: | congruent, in concert, in unison |
| Main Entry: | in agreement |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | with a common plan |
| Synonyms: | congruent, cooperative, corresponding, harmonious, like-minded, of one mind, parallel, unanimous, with one voice |
| Main Entry: | ratiocinative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | logical |
| Synonyms: | analytic, analytical, clear, cogent, coherent, commonsensical, compelling, congruent, consequent, consistent, convincing, deducible, discerning, discriminating, extensional, fair, germane, holding together, holding water, inferential, intelligent, judicious, juridicious, justifiable, kosher*, legit*, legitimate, lucid, most likely, necessary, obvious, perceptive, perspicuous, pertinent, plausible, rational, relevant, sensible, sound, subtle, telling, valid, well-organized, wise* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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