consistent

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Adjective

consistent (comparative more consistent, superlative most consistent)

1. Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

   The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.

   He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!

2. Compatible, accordant.
   • 2012 January 1, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 74: 

     Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.

3. (logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

Antonyms

• inconsistent
• contradictory

Related terms

• consist
• consistence
• consistency
• inconsistent

Translations

of dependable nature

• Bulgarian: последователен (bg) (posledovatelen), постоянен (bg) (postojanen)
• Catalan: consistent (ca)
• Chinese: 一貫 的, 一贯 的, yīguàn de
• Dutch: veel voorkomend (nl), consequent (nl)
• Estonian: järjepidev (et)

• Portuguese: consistente (pt) m and f
• Russian: последовательный (ru) (poslédovatel'nyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seasmhach (gd)
• Spanish: consistente (es)

not logically contradictory

• Bulgarian: непротиворечив (bg) (neprotivorečiv)
• Catalan: consistent (ca)
• Chinese: 一貫 的, 一贯 的, yīguàn de
• Czech: konzistentní (cs), bezesporný (cs) m
• Dutch: consequent (nl), consistent (nl)

• Esperanto: konsekvenca (eo)
• French: cohérent (fr)
• German: widerspruchsfrei (de), konsistent (de)
• Hungarian: ellentmondásmentes (hu), konzisztens (hu)

Noun

consistent (plural consistents)

1. plural Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from East to West? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from West to East? How then can you make these motions being conferred on the Earth ... to become consistents?

2. In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.
   • 1885 Catholic Dictionary 651

     The consistentes stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
• Catholic Dictionary (1885)
• Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia - Supplement (1753)

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Catalan

Adjective

consistent m, f (masculine and feminine plural consistents)

1. consistent

Derived terms

• consistentment
• inconsistent

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Dutch

Adjective

consistent (comparative consistenter, superlative consistentst)

1. consistent

Declension

Declension of consistent

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		consistent	consistenter
neuter singular	indefinite	consistent	consistenter
	definite	consistente	consistentere	consistentste	consistentst, consistentste
common singular		consistente	consistentere	consistentste	consistentste
plural		consistente	consistentere	consistentste	consistentste
partitive		consistents	consistenters

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French

Verb

consistent

1. third-person plural present indicative of consister
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of consister

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Latin

Verb

consistent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of consistō