Word Meanings - CONSONANTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.

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• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• CONGRUOUS
  Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.
• CONSONANTNESS
  The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.
• CONSONANTLY
  In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CONSONANTIZE
  To change into, or use as, a consonant. "The vowel is consonantized, that is, made closer in position." Peile.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• AGREEABLY
  1. In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. "Agreeably entertained." Goldsmith. 2. In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that
• 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.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CONGRUOUSLY
  In a congruous manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• SELF-CONSISTENT
  Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
• DISAGREEABLY
  In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• INCONSONANT
  Not consonant or agreeing; inconsistent; discordant. -- In*con"so*nant*ly, adv.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• INCONGRUOUS
  Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress,
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INCONSISTENT
  1. Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory. Compositions of this nature . . . show that wisdom and virtue are far