Word Meanings - COGNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically , related on the mother's side. 2. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COGNATE)

• Akin
• Related
• agnate
• cognate
• homogeneous
• similar
• consanguineous
• congenial
• allied
• sympathetic
• Belonging
• connected
• appertaining
• obligatory
• accompanying
• Kindred
• akin

Related words: (words related to COGNATE)

• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• ALLICE; ALLIS
  The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• ALLIGATION
  A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain
• ALLITERATE
  To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
• ALLIGATE
  To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
• ALLIGNMENT
  See ALIGNMENT
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.