EGAVE

consistent

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 32.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
  2. adjective Compatible, accordant.
  3. adjective Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
  4. noun Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
  5. noun A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.

Similar words

self-consistent pursuant conformable accordant uniform logical concordant ordered orderly coherent

Often followed by

with and in pattern results across manner set or

Word family

consist consisted consistency consistently consisting consists

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