Meaning of CONGRUOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'kânggroous
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- [adj] suitable or appropriate together
- [adj] corresponding in character or kind
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| | Synonyms: | | appropriate, compatible, congruent, harmonious |
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| | Antonyms: | | incongruous | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con"gru*ous\, a. [L. congruus, fr. congruere to come
together, to coincide, to agree. Of uncertain origin.]
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.
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