Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Harmonious; agreeing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agreeing; agreeable; correspondent; suitable; harmonious.
- In music, consisting of a concord, or having the effect of one. See
concord , 3, and consonant, a., 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Agreeing ;correspondent ;harmonious ;consonant ; in keeping with;agreeable with; concordant with; concordant to
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in keeping
- adjective being of the same opinion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions.
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
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Overall, the Knights Templar is a "concordant" body of the Masons.
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Still, how strangely concordant that the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and his American counterpart Paul Strand should both have been roaming Mexico's ancient towns at roughly the same time, unbeknownst to one another.
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So concordant with the air in this place, with the breath from her body, he isn't sure that he can breathe on the other side.
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Rather, what makes this group special is the way it forges a sweetly concordant sound from a set of significantly different voice types.
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This reflects perhaps a culture of neutrality in matters that are religious, which is seen to be in the spirit of Alfred Nobel himself, and is very concordant with a Norwegian discretion about religious allegiance.
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To opine for 427 words (yes, I counted) about the war's deep costs to our economy and the concordant need to limit it's impact and then try to get away with redefining your promise to as little as a two-percent cost reduction qualifies as used-car hucksterism of the lowest sort -- the kind that tricks people into a product that kills lots of people and leaves the survivors broke.
Derrick Crowe: Who's the Huckster for This High-Interest War?
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