consistant

Adjective

consistent (comparative more consistent, superlative most consistent)

1. Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
   • The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
2. Compatible, accordant.
   • As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, ſo I could not be content now, but I muſt go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to purſue a raſh and immoderate Deſire of riſing faſter than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and...1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 43

   Synonyms:

   conformable, compliant, congruent, commensurate, compatible, conformant, congruous, in line, in step, proportionate

3. Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
   • When we ask whether ideas or terms are consistent or inconsistent with each other, the question really is, in what manner the relation presupposed between the ideas qualifies them for being combined as terms of a judgment.1857, William Spalding, “Introduction”, in An Introduction to Logical Science: Being a Reprint of the Article “Logic” from the Eighth Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh: Adam and...

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