The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.
Source: tatoeba (717949)
Cohesive
//kəʊˈhiː.sɪv//
Synonyms for "cohesive" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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10 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مُتَمَاسِك adj (having cohesion)
- مُتَنَاسِق adj (having cohesion)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зацепващ adj (having cohesion)
- свързващ adj (having cohesion)
Catalan
1 entries- cohesiu adj (having cohesion)
Czech
1 entries- soudržný adj (having cohesion)
Esperanto
1 entries- kohera adj (having cohesion)
Finnish
1 entries- yhdistävä adj (having cohesion)
German
1 entries- zusammenhängend adj (having cohesion)
Greek
1 entries- συνεκτικός adj (having cohesion)
Indonesian
1 entries- kohesif adj (having cohesion)
Italian
1 entries- coeso adj (having cohesion)
Malay
2 entries- jeleket adj (having cohesion)
- kohesif adj (having cohesion)
Manx
3 entries- co-ghreimmagh adj (having cohesion)
- co-haait adj (having cohesion)
- lhiantynagh adj (having cohesion)
Persian
1 entries- منسجم adj (having cohesion)
Portuguese
1 entries- coeso adj (having cohesion)
Romanian
2 entries- coerent adj (having cohesion)
- coeziv adj (having cohesion)
Russian
2 entries- свя́занный adj (having cohesion)
- сплочённый adj (having cohesion)
Spanish
1 entries- cohesivo adj (having cohesion)
Swedish
1 entries- sammanhängande adj (having cohesion)
Turkish
3 entries- bağlı adj (having cohesion)
- yapışkan adj (having cohesion)
- yapışık adj (having cohesion)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
A text could be coherent but not cohesive, and vice versa.
Source: tatoeba (3148991)
Their team is not very cohesive.
Source: tatoeba (6003918)
None of those thoughts are cohesive nor do they make sense independently.
Source: tatoeba (6586326)
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