Congruent

//ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.ənt// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Corresponding in character; congruous.

    "In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it."

  2. 2
    Harmonious.
  3. 3
    Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
  4. 4
    Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
  5. 5
    Satisfying a congruence relation.
Adjective
  1. 1
    coinciding when superimposed wordnet
  2. 2
    corresponding in character or kind wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
congruouscoincidentaccordantaffirmativeagreeableagreeing

Example

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"“You will not?” asked the lady. “No, by heavens, madam!” her husband replied; “ask me anything congruent with common decency, as to drop his acquaintance by degrees, or the like; but to bid him leave my house is what I will not and cannot consent to.”"

Etymology

From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).

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