Word Meanings - CONSONANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords. 4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T.

Additional info about word: CONSONANT

harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords. 4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore. (more info) sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: cf. F. 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. Bp. Beveridge. That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. Dr. H. More. 2. Having like sounds. Consonant words and syllables. Howell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSONANT)

• Agreeable
• Obliging
• pleasant
• accommodating
• grateful
• acceptable
• welcome
• suitable
• consistent
• consonant
• amiable
• gratifying
• pleasing
• good-natured
• complaisant
• Compatible
• Consistent
• consentaneous
• harmonious
• coexistent
• correspondent
• congruous
• accordant
• agreeable
• congenial
• Congenial
• Natural
• concordant
• sympathetic
• kindred
• Congruous
• Agreeing
• coherent
• homogeneous
• agreeing
• compatible

Related words: (words related to CONSONANT)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• 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; --
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.