Consistent

Quick meaning: Consistent is an adjective meaning Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

Meaning

Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

More Meanings

1. Compatible, accordant.
2. (logic) Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
3. (in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
4. (Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.

Example Sentences

He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.

That author [Mr. Boyle] has a particular Eſſay of the Atmoſphere of Conſiſtent Bodies; wherein he ſhews, that all, even ſolid, hard, ponderous, and fix'd Bodies, do exhale or emit Effluvia to a certain space all around 'em.

When a philosopher adopted fully the Nominalist view of the signification of general language, retaining along with it the dictum de omni as the foundation of all reasoning, two such premisses fairly put together were likely, if he was a consistent thinker, to land him in rather startling conclusions.

Word Forms

• consistents

Synonyms for consistent

Depending on context, synonyms include conformable, compliant, congruent, commensurate, compatible, conformant.

Antonyms for consistent

Common opposites include contradictory, incompatible, inconsistent, irreproducible, unreproducible.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-consistent, conformable, accordant, uniform, logical, concordant.

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