Word Meanings - CONTEMPORARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,

Additional info about word: CONTEMPORARY

1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. Cowley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEMPORARY)

• coetaneous
• Coeval
• contemporary
• synchronous
• Coexistent
• Concurrent
• coincident
• compatible
• correspondent
• correlative

Related words: (words related to CONTEMPORARY)

• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• SYNCHRONOUS
  Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• COEXISTENT
  Existing at the same time with another. -- n.
• COMPATIBLE
  Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
• COETANEOUS
  Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all are coetaneous. Bentley.
• COINCIDENT
  Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.
• CORRESPONDENT
  Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command.
• CONCURRENTNESS
  The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
• CONCURRENTLY
  With concurrence; unitedly.
• COINCIDENTAL
  Coincident.
• CORRESPONDENTLY
  In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
• COINCIDENTLY
  With coincidence.
• CONCURRENT
  Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. (more info) 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with
• COMPATIBLENESS
  Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.
• CORRELATIVELY
  In a correlative relation.
• CORRELATIVE
  Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.
• COEVAL
  Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.
• DISCORRESPONDENT
  Incongruous. W. Montagu.
• NONCOINCIDENT
  Not coincident.
• INCOMPATIBLE
  Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. Incompatible terms , terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn. -- Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing;
• INCOINCIDENT
  Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle.
• INCOMPATIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility.
• ASYNCHRONOUS
  Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; --opposed to synchronous.