Word Meanings - CONGRUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONGRUOUS)

• Apposite
• Suitable
• appropriate
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• pertinent
• seasonable
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Compatible
• Consistent
• consentaneous
• harmonious
• coexistent
• correspondent
• accordant
• agreeable
• congenial
• consonant
• Congruous
• agreeing
• compatible
• Fit
• Decent
• apt
• seemly
• becoming
• decorous
• qualified
• peculiar
• particular
• suitable
• prepared
• adequate
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• proper
• ripe
• Harmonious
• proportioned
• uniform
• melodious
• musical
• dulcet
• tuneful
• peaceful
• amicable
• friendly
• concordant

Related words: (words related to CONGRUOUS)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• 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.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• 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
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.