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cohesive

/kəʊˈhiː.sɪv//koʊˈhi.sɪv/

cohesive adjective: having cohesion.

Adjective

cohesive (comparative more cohesive, superlative most cohesive)

  1. Having cohesion.
    • a team welded into a cohesive unit
    • Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC

Noun

cohesive (plural cohesives)

  1. A substance that provides cohesion
    • The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is, →ISBN
    • Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition, →ISBN
  2. A device used to establish cohesion within a text
    • The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...

cohesive meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

cohesive in Tamil

ஒட்டும், ஒட்டக்கூடிய, ஒட்டிணைவான, ஒட்டி இணையும், பிணைகின்ற, ஒன்று படல்

cohesive in Urdu

چسپیدہ, پاس پاس

cohesive in Bengali

সংহত, সংযোগশীল

cohesive in Kannada

ಅಂಟಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ, ಕೂಡಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ, ಸಂಯೋಜನೆಯಾಗಿರುವ, ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ, ಸಂಬದ್ಧವಾಗಿರುವ, ಸೇರಿಕೆಗೊಂಡಿರುವ
More languagesFewer languages
cohesive in Arabic
مُتَمَاسِك mutamāsik, مُتَنَاسِق mutanāsiq
cohesive in Malay
jeleket, kohesif
cohesive in Indonesian
kohesif
cohesive in Persian
منسجم monsajem

Examples of cohesive in a sentence

  • For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
  • “It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me.2017 April 13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original...
  • The idea of loyalty to a single country and culture, particularly in East Asia, may also “imply the desire to maintain a cohesive ethnocultural identity,” said Dzankic, of GLOBALCIT.2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:

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Synonyms of cohesive

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Forms of cohesive

Adjective
comparativemore cohesive
superlativemost cohesive
alternative form (obsolete, rare)cohæsive
Noun
pluralcohesives

Origin of cohesive

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

Words formed from cohesive

Phrases with cohesive

Questions about cohesive

What does cohesive mean?
Cohesive means having cohesion.
What is cohesive in Tamil?
Cohesive in Tamil is ஒட்டும், ஒட்டக்கூடிய, ஒட்டிணைவான. See Cohesive meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cohesive in a sentence?
For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
What part of speech is cohesive?
Cohesive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce cohesive?
Cohesive is pronounced /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/ (UK).

Words near cohesive in the dictionary

  1. cohesion
  2. cohesional
  3. cohesionless
  4. cohesionlessness
  5. cohesions
  6. cohesive
  7. cohesive device
  8. cohesive devices
  9. cohesive energy
  10. cohesively
  11. cohesiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cohesive (page history and authors); cohesive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cohesive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cohesive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cohesive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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