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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | agreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, in keeping |
| Synonyms: | befitting, compatible, congruous, consistent, consonant, fitting, proper |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, discordant, incompatible, incongruous, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable |
| Synonyms: | adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct, deserved, desired, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, good, just, on the button, on the nose, opportune, pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, tailor-made, true, useful, well-suited, well-timed |
| Antonyms: | improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | becoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | befitting, comme il faut, compatible, conforming, congruous, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, in keeping, nice, proper, right, seemly, worthy |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally known; held in common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Main Entry: | compatible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, in harmony |
| Synonyms: | accordant, adaptable, appropriate, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, cooperative, cotton to, fit, fitting, getting along with, harmonious, having good vibes, hitting it off, in keeping, in sync with, in the groove, like-minded, meet, on the same wavelength, proper, reconcilable, simpatico, suitable, sympathetic, together |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, disagreeable, incompatible, inharmonious, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | congenial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, compatible |
| Synonyms: | adapted, affable, agreeable, amical, clubby, companionable, compatible, complaisant, congruous, consistent, consonant, conversable, convivial, cooperative, cordial, delightful, favorable, fit, genial, good-humored, gracious, happy, harmonious, jovial, kindly, kindred, like-minded, mellow, pleasant, pleasing, regular fellow, right neighborly, sociable, social, suitable, sympathetic, well-suited |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, ill-suited, incompatible, uncongenial, unfriendly, unsympathetic |
| Main Entry: | consistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeing, compatible |
| Synonyms: | accordant, according to, agreeable, all of a piece, coherent, conforming with, congenial, congruous, consonant, equable, harmonious, like, logical, matching, sympathetic |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, incompatible, inconsistent, unfitting, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | consonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeing, consistent |
| Synonyms: | accordant, according, agnate, akin, alike, analogous, blending, coincident, comparable, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruous, correspondent, corresponding, harmonious, in agreement, in rapport, like, parallel, similar, suitable, sympathetic, uniform |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, dissonant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant |
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