consistent
Syllables: con·sist·ent/kənˈsɪs.tənt/
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India/ˈkən.sɪs.ʈenʈ/
consistent adjective: of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
Adjective
consistent (comparative more consistent, superlative most consistent)
- Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
- The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
- He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
- 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
- When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first...1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIX, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 251
- Synonyms:
- conformable, compliant, congruent, commensurate, compatible, conformant, congruous, in line, in step, proportionate
- 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...
- Part of establishing a foundation for geometry was demonstrating that the axioms were consistent – that they could never lead to contradictions.2008, Charles Petzold, “Centuries of Progress”, in The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley...
Noun
consistent (plural consistents)
- Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
- The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?1661, Galileo Galilei, “Galilæus: Galilæus Lincæus, His Systeme of the World. The Second Dialogue.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and Translations, volume I, part I, London...
- A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
- [F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."[1884, William E[dward] Addis, Thomas Arnold, “PENITENTIAL DISCIPLINE AND BOOKS”, in A Catholic Dictionary: Containing Some Account of the Doctrine, Discipline, Rites, Ceremonies, Councils, and...
consistent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
consistent in Hindi
- सुसंगत
consistent in Tamil
- ஒத்த, முரணற்ற, இசைவான, இசைவுள்ள
consistent in Marathi
- सातत्यपूर्ण
consistent in Urdu
- بااصول, ہم آہنگ, استوار, یک رنگ, یکساں
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- consistent in Bengali
- সঙ্গত, দৃঢ়, দৃঢ়বদ্ধ, সমান
- consistent in Malayalam
- സ്ഥിരം, മാറ്റമില്ലാത്ത, ചേർച്ചയുള്ള, പൊരുത്തമുള്ള
- consistent in Kannada
- ಒಮ್ಮುವ, ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ, ಮಾರ್ಪಡದ, ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯಿರುವ
- consistent in Punjabi
- ਸਮਾਨ samān
- consistent in Gujarati
- સાતત્યપૂર્ણ
- consistent in Sinhala
- සංගත
- consistent in Arabic
- مُتَّسِق muttasiq
- consistent in Malay
- tekal
- consistent in Indonesian
- panggah, konsisten, taat asas
- consistent in Vietnamese
- phù hợp, thích hợp
Examples of consistent in a sentence
- The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
- Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
- Let's lay down the rules right at the beginning, so we are consistent.
Synonyms of consistent
- conformable
- compliant
- congruent
- commensurate
- compatible
- conformant
- congruous
- in line
- in step
- proportionate
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Antonyms
Forms of consistent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more consistent |
| superlative | most consistent |
| Noun | |
| plural | consistents |
Origin of consistent
Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)). By surface analysis, consist + -ent.
Words formed from consistent
Questions about consistent
- What does consistent mean?
- Consistent means of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
- What is consistent in Hindi?
- Consistent in Hindi is सुसंगत. See Consistent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is consistent?
- Consistent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce consistent?
- Consistent is pronounced /kənˈsɪs.tənt/.
Words near consistent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: consistent (page history and authors); consistent (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consistent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consistent (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consistent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consistent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consistent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); consistent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਮਾਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); consistent (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); consistent (Sinhala 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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