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Concomitant

Definition: Concomitant

Concomitant

Adjective

1. Following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management".

Noun

1. An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "concomitant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)


Specialty Definition: Concomitant

DomainDefinition

Health

Accompanying; accessory; joined with another. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Concomitant

Synonyms: accompanying (adj), attendant (adj), incidental (adj), incidental to(p) (adj), accompaniment (n), co-occurrence (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Concomitant

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Accompaniment

Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.

Adjective: accompanying; Verb: concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato.

Synchronism

Adjective: synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval, coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Concomitant

English words defined with "concomitant": incident, incidentalnecessitate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "concomitant": Angina Pectoris, VariantColitis, UlcerativeP-action, Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System, PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY, Procollagen-Lysine, 2-Oxoglutarate 5-Dioxygenase, Procollagen-Proline Dioxygenase, proportional actionSecosteroids, Self-Sustained Sequence Replication, Succinate-CoA LigasesTick Control. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Concomitant" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (concomitant).

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Commercial Usage: Concomitant

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cardiac Surgery and Concomitant Disease (reference)

  • Clinical Applications of Continuous Infusion Chemotherapy and Concomitant Radiation Therapy (reference)

  • Concomitant Continuous Infusion Chemotherapy and Radiation (reference)

  • Concomitant Infections (reference)

  • Dual Addiction: Pharmacological Issues in the Treatment of Concomitant Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Concomitant

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The role of concomitant chemotherapy for recurrent disease awaits definition. (references)

They also have a concomitant antidepressant effect that is frequently helpful. (references)

A careful medical history is needed to determine the presence and severity of concomitant disease. (references)

Business

This growth has been accompanied by a concomitant increase in local demand for mining equipment, likely to continue in the coming years, in spite of adverse world prices for mining commodities. (references)

Auto lease-purchase arrangements had showed particularly strong growth, concomitant with the 51.5% increase in domestic automobile sales in 1999. However, the slow down in capital investment by local manufacturers has led leasing companies to de-emphasize equipment/machinery leasing, despite the government's relaxation of tight leasing regulations. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

The exchange rate has also appreciated by nearly 25 percent since late 1998 (currently at around Rp. 9,200/US$1), leading to a concomitant decline in prices of imported food at the wholesale level. (references)

Trinidad

International drug trafficking, with its concomitant corruption, could pose a threat to the investment climate, especially when money-laundering undercuts legitimate pricing policies, but the Government is very proactive in its efforts to combat both illegal narcotics and the influence of money laundering. (references)

Minorities

Panama

Mainstream political elites generally are unconcerned by the economic problems of black populations and a concomitant rise in drug use, crime, and gang violence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Concomitant

"Concomitant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.04% of the time. "Concomitant" is used about 203 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)97.04%19721,803
Noun (singular)2.96%6143,867
                    Total100.00%203N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Concomitant

Expressions using "concomitant": concomitant circumstances concomitant strabismus. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Concomitant

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

concomitant

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Concomitant

Language Translations for "concomitant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shoqërues (accompanist, accompanying, attendant, cicerone, companion, date, escort, follow up, following, guide, suitor, usher). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съпътствуващ (incidental), едновременен (concurrent, contemporaneous, isochronal, simultaneous, synchronistic, synchronous). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

伴随 (Accompanied, Accompany, Accompanying). (various references)

   

Czech

  

prùvodní (accessory). (various references)

   

Danish

  

concomitans. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

concomiterend. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیوسته (Against, Allied, Always, Away, Ceaseless, Contiguous, Continual, Cursive, Eternal, Forever, Incessant, Married, Proximate, Uninterrupted), ملازم (Adjunct, Attendant, Retainer, Valet), همراه (Along, Attendant, Comrade, Escort, Participant). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valikoiva liukeneminen (selective corrosion is a frequent concomitant of rising temperature), valikoiva korroosio (selective corrosion is a frequent concomitant of rising temperature). (various references)

   

French

  

concomitant. (various references)

   

German

  

begleitend (attendant, attending, chaperoning, collateral, escorting, squiring), Begleitumstand. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνυπάρχον, συνακόλουθοσ, συνοδός (accompanying person, attendant, attendee, companion, convoy man, convoyer, guide, pilot), οπαδόσ (adherent, believer, disciple, follower, partisan). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

velejáró (accompanying, attached, attendant, collateral, connotation, inherent), mellékkörülmények (collateral facts), kísérõ (accompanist, accompanying, attendant, chaperon, henchman, incident, wingman), kísérő (accompanying, escort, follower, gillie, haunting), jelenségek, együtt előforduló. (various references)

   

Italian

  

concomitante (attendant). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

附随 (annexed to, attaching to, attending, incident to), 付随現象 (side effect), 付随 (annexed to, attaching to, attending, incident to). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふずい'"しょう (side effect), ふずい (annexed to, attaching to, attending, incident to, palsy, paralysis). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

동반하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

co-cheimnagh (collateral, concurrent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncomitantcay

   

Portuguese

  

concomitante (appendant, attendant, collateral, concurrent). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

concomitent (accessary, accompanying, concurrent, instantaneous, simultaneous), însoţitor (accompanying, attendant, companion, conductor, consort, mate, porter, squire). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сопутствующий (accompanying, apendant, appendant), сопровождающий (accompanying, annotative, attendant). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prateći (accompanying, attendant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

concomitante (attendant, attending, chaperoning, escorting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

beledsagande omständighet, beledsagande (attendant). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

olacağı, eşlik eden (accompanying, attendant, in waiting), doğal sonuç (corollary), beraberindeki (accompanying), beraberinde gelen şey. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

супутній, супровідна обставина (concurrent), супровідний (accompanying, appendant, associate, attendant). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cùng xảy ra, vật cùng đi, sự việc cùng xảy ra, sự việc đi đôi, đi kèm với, đi đôi với. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Concomitant

Derivations

Words beginning with "concomitant": concomitantly, concomitants. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Concomitant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cconcomitant, cocomitant, concomiant, concominant, concomitans, concomitent, concomittant, concommitan, concommitant, concommitent, concommittant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Concomitant"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "concomitant" (pronounced kÄ'nkÄ"mutunt)
5-u t u n tadjutant, competent, exorbitant, hesitant, impotent, incompetent, inhabitant, irritant, militant, omnipotent, penitent.
4-t u n taccountant, assistant, blatant, combatant, consistent, constant, consultant, contestant, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, expectant, extant, exultant, important, inadvertent, inconsistent, insistent, instant, intermittent, latent, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, patent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, resultant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant.
3-u n tabandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Concomitant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-m-n-n-o-o-t-t"

-2 letters: nonatomic.

-3 letters: coaction, conation, monotint, notation.

-4 letters: actinon, amotion, canonic, catmint, cocomat, comatic, contact, contain, cooncan, ottoman, taction.

-5 letters: action, amnion, anoint, anomic, atomic, atonic, camion, cannot, cantic, canton, cation, cocain, cotton, incant, intact, manioc, manito, mantic, mattin, motion, nation, nomina, noncom, notion, octant, oomiac, tactic, tannic, tictac, tictoc, tinman, titman, tomato, tomcat.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-m-n-n-o-o-t-t"
 

+1 letter: concomitants.

 

+2 letters: concomitantly.

 

+5 letters: countercomplaint, macroinstruction.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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