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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related, affiliated |
| Synonyms: | akin, allied, applicable, associated, banded together, bracketed, coherent, combined, consecutive, coupled, in on with, joined, linked, pertinent, undivided, united |
| Antonyms: | disconnected, disjoined, unaffiliated, uncombined, unconnected, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | allied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly; united |
| Synonyms: | affiliated, agnate, akin, amalgamated, associated, bound, cognate, combined, confederate, connate, connected, in league, incident, joined, joint, kindred, linked, married, related, unified, wed |
| Antonyms: | disunited, estranged, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | cognate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike, associated |
| Synonyms: | affiliated, agnate, akin, allied, analogous, comparable, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, general, generic, incident, kindred, like, related, same, similar, universal |
| Notes: | A doublet is one of two or more words derived ultimately from a single source: abbreviate/abridge, fragile/frail, guardian/warden. The doublets may or may not show much resemblance and they also vary in closeness of meaning. Somewhere along their line of development they diverge and go off in different paths. The term cognate is usually reserved for two or more words in different languages that share a common ancestor as English father, Latin Pater, Greek pater, Spanish and Italian padre, French pere, and German Vater. |
| Antonyms: | disassociated, dissimilar, unalike, unallied, unconnected, unlike |
| Main Entry: | comparative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approximate, close to |
| Synonyms: | allusive, analogous, approaching, by comparison, comparable, conditional, connected, contingent, contrastive, correlative, corresponding, equivalent, in proportion, like, matching, metaphorical, near, not absolute, not positive, parallel, provisional, qualified, related, relative, restricted, rivaling, similar, vying, with reservation |
| Notes: | positive is the ordinary form of a word, with comparative conveying the sense of greater intensity of the adjective and superlative reflecting the greatest intensity of the adjective |
| Antonyms: | unequal, unlike |
| Main Entry: | concomitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contributing, accompanying |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adjuvant, agreeing, ancillary, associated with, associative, attendant, attending, belonging, coefficient, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coincident, coincidental, collateral, complementary, concordant, concurrent, conjoined, conjoined with, connected, contemporaneous, contemporary, coordinate, corollary, coterminous, coupled with, fellow, in tempo, in time, incident, isochronal, isochronous, joint, satellite, synchronal, synchronous, synergetic, synergistic |
| Antonyms: | accidental, chance, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | consecutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in sequence |
| Synonyms: | after, chronological, connected, constant, continuing, continuous, ensuing, following, going on, in order, in turn, increasing, later, logical, numerical, one after another, progressive, running, sequent, sequential, serial, serialized, seriate, seriatim, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive, understandable, uninterrupted |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, unconsecutive |
| Main Entry: | constant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fixed |
| Synonyms: | connected, consistent, continual, equable, even, firm, habitual, homogeneous, immutable, invariable, like the Rock of Gibralter, monochrome, monophonic, monotonous, nonstop, of a piece, permanent, perpetual, regular, regularized, solid as rock, stabile, stable, standardized, steadfast, steady, together, unalterable, unbroken, unchanging, unflappable, unfluctuating, uniform, uninterrupted, unvarying |
| Antonyms: | changeable, fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, irregular, unstable, unsteady, varying, wavering |
| Main Entry: | contemporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing, occurring at same time |
| Synonyms: | accompanying, associated, attendant, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, connected, contemporaneous, current, linked, present, related, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous |
| Notes: | contemporary can be predicated of persons, conditions, or events; contemporaneous is predicable only of occurrences or events |
| Antonyms: | future, past, preceding, succeeding |
| Main Entry: | continual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, incessant |
| Synonyms: | aeonian, around-the-clock, ceaseless, connected, consecutive, continuous, dateless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, frequent, interminable, oft-repeated, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, recurrent, regular, relentless, repeated, repetitive, running, staying, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unending, unfailing, unflagging, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying, unwaning |
| Notes: | continually means 'repeatedly, with breaks in between' and continuously means 'without interruption, in an unbroken stream'; continual typically refers to time while continuous can refer to space as well as time |
| Antonyms: | broken, ceasing, checked, halting, inconstant, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary |
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