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Definitions: Accordant |
AccordantAdjective1. Being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with'; "a place perfectly accordant with man's nature"-Thomas Hardy. 2. In keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accordant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Accordant \Ac*cord"ant\, adjective. [Old French expression acordant, French accordant.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AccordantSynonyms: agreeable (adj), concordant (adj), conformable (adj), consonant (adj), in accord(p) (adj), in agreement(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: discordant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate. |
Render accordant; Adjective: fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; (render, equal); dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square. | |
Adjective: agreeing, suiting; Verb: in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with; Noun: at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours. | |
Concord | Keep in good humor, render accordant, put in tune; come to an understanding, meet halfway; keep the peace, remain at peace. |
Equality | Render equal; Adjective: equalize level, dress, balance, equate, handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise; fit, accommodate; adapt; (render accordant); strike a balance; establish equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium; readjust; stretch on the bed of Procrustes. |
Expedience | Adjective: expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming; befitting; Verb: opportune; (in season); in loco; suitable; (accordant); applicable; (useful). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Accordant |
| English words defined with "accordant": according ♦ Concentual, Convenable ♦ Disaccordant ♦ Inaccordant ♦ Music of the spheres ♦ Rulable. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Accordant" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (accordant, agreeing). |
| "Accordant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accordant" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
accordant | 20 |
accordant health services | 3 |
accordant health | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accordant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që i përgjigjet, i duhur (appropriate, befitting, comely, due, due to, fitting, indispensable, necessary, needful, owing, proper, required, right). (various references) | |
Arabic | منسجم مع (congruous, consonant), ملائم (acceptable, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съгласуван (agreed, coherent, concerted, consentient, harmonic, pursuant), хармониращ (concurrent), в съгласие, отговарящ (conformable, corresponding, respondent, responsive). (various references) | |
Chinese | 一致 (Coincident, Concord, Concordant, Concurrent, Conform, Conformed, Conforming, Congruence, Congruent, Consistent). (various references) | |
Czech | souhlasný s. (various references) | |
French | accordant. (various references) | |
German | übereinstimmend (according, coincided, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concordant, concurring, conformable, conformably, consistent, consistently, consonantly, corresponding, jibing, matching, unanimously, unisonous). (various references) | |
Greek | σύμφωνοσ (agreed, compatible, concordant, concurrent, conformable, congruent, consonant, pursuant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összhangban lévõ (conformable). (various references) | |
Italian | conforme (acc., according). (various references) | |
Korean | 도리에 맞은. (various references) | |
Manx | coreiragh (proportional, proportionate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accordantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | harmonioso (canorous, concordant, conformable, consonant, euphonious, flowing, harmonic, harmonious, melodist, numerous, orpin, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, United), em harmonia com, conforme a (agreeable, consonant), concordante (concordant, concurrent). (various references) | |
Romanian | corespunzãtor cu, în armonie (consonant, harmonious). (various references) | |
Russian | согласный (agreeable, concordant, consilient, consonant, consonantal, content, correspondent, like minded), соответственный (answerable, commensurate, corresponding, rateable, reciprocal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u skladu. (various references) | |
Spanish | conforme (accordance, according, acquiescent, agreeable, agreed, agreement, conform, conformable, ok, okay), concordante (concordant, consentient). (various references) | |
Swedish | enlig. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sazlaюyk (concordant). (various references) | |
Ukranian | співзвучний (assonant, concordant, consonant, harmonious), відповідний (adequate, agreeable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, coincident, coincidental, commensurate, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, fit, homologous, mutual, pertinent, proper, relational, relative, respective, suitable, worthy), згідний (according). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | theo đúng với, phù hợp (congruous, consonant, suitable), ho hợp với. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conveniens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accordant": accordantly. (additional references) | |
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"Accordant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accodata, accordat, accorden, iscordant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "accordant" (pronounced 'Ac*cord"ant'): Abeyant, Accomptant, Accusant, Acquaintant, Adjoinant, Affiant, Affirmant, Aidant, Alliant, Appealant, Aspectant, Avowant, Buoyant, Calorifiant, Claimant, Codefendant, Complainant, Compliant, Concordant, Confessant, Confutant, Consentant, Conservant, Conspirant, Containant, Contestant, Cotenant, Couchant, Creant, Declaimant, Declarant, Defiant, Delirant, Demandant, Depressant, Disaccordant, Discordant, Disinfectant, Displeasant, Dividant, Durant, Electant, Endurant, Exceptant, Exhalant, Expirant, Extendant, Exultant, flamboyant, Forbearant, Inaccordant, Incompliant, Inexistant, Inexpectant, informant, Inobservant, Insurant, Interferant, Intrenchant, Joinant, lieutenant, Misdemeanant, Misinformant, Mountant, Obscurant, Obversant, Offendant, Pedant, Pendant, Perchant, Perseverant, Plainant, Pliant, Poignant, Pretendant, Prevoyant, Questant, Rampant, Reboant, Reclaimant, Reclinant, Reguardant, relaxant, reliant, resistant, Respectant, Rousant, self-reliant, Suant, Subtenant, Subverant, Succeedant, Supplyant, Surintendant, Thrillant, Transportant, trenchant, Trivant, unpleasant, Untenant, Usant, Usurpant, Zealant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-n-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: accord, canard, candor, cantor, carton, contra, craton. | |
-4 letters: acorn, actor, adorn, antra, aorta, cacao, canto, carat, coact, cotan, narco, octad, octan, racon, radon, ratan, tardo, taroc, trona. | |
-5 letters: acta, anoa, anta, arco, caca, cant, card, carn, cart, coat, coca, coda, cord, corn, croc, darn, dart, data, dato, doat, dona, drat, nada, narc, nard, nota, orad, orca, rand, rant, rato, road, roan, rota, taco, tarn, taro, toad, tora, torc, torn, trad, trod. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: accordantly. | |
+4 letters: accreditation. | |
+5 letters: accreditations, adrenocortical, antidemocratic, contradictable, contraindicate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 63 6F 72 64 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. --- .-. -.. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c o r d a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 006F 0072 0064 0061 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356969818470678086 |
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