CONSISTENT Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

consistent

adjective

kən-ˈsi-stənt

Definition of consistent

as in compatible

not having or showing any apparent conflict the clothes you wear to work must be consistent with the company's dress code

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Recent Examples of consistent Of the 69 rabid bats recorded this year, 68% were found in the Santa Clarita Valley, consistent with trends seen over the last decade. — L.a. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 The platform effect TikTok was the only major platform in Traackr’s analysis to deliver consistent year-over-year growth across all VIT sectors. — Fernanda Tronco, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 Speeds were also consistent on State Route 99 northbound from Elk Grove and Capitol City Freeway south to Highway 50. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The Education Department subsequently instructed its Office for Civil Rights to enforce Title IX consistent with those definitions. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for consistent

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Vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, technology allows compatible vehicles and chargers to exchange electricity with the grid rather than simply charging the battery.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
In practice, however, the number of vehicles that are actually compatible is still very limited.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of compatible

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The film’s treatment of Odysseus’s lies, too, seems consonant with the Ten Commandments instead of Homer’s moral worldview.

— Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026
But recent research found that members of the Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society in Bolivia, rate consonant and dissonant chords as equally pleasurable.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

Definition of consonant

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While the first version of OpenAI’s GPT language model could barely write a few paragraphs of coherent text, its newest models can solve mathematics problems that have stumped humans for the better part of a century.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Toward the most coherent expression of the California possibility.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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