congruous
/ˈkɒŋɡrʊəs
/adjective
In agreement or harmony: this explanation is congruous with earlier observations...
- These things look great fun to fly - their pilots wave from open cockpits and wiggle their wings raffishly - but they look as graceful and congruous as goats on skateboards.
- And our previous name and layout wasn't congruous with what we were doing.
- In the end process any theory on the acquisition or evolution of language must not only offer a model on how we process language, it must be congruous with how we process music.
Derivatives
congruity
/ noun ...- The recorded commentaries struck a fine congruity between historical details and interesting human insights into what had happened in those resplendent rooms.
- In an age when a Catholic leader and writer strikes a note of congruity, one is more shocked than pleased.
- Yet it is a mistake to interpret the current close alliance as a congruity of interests.
congruously
/ adverb ...- Of particular note is the ingenious use of CGI throughout the features, blended so congruously into the animation that you barely notice its presence.
- A heavy shellac gives an overall luminescence to the work and the only congruously identifying factor is his intricate use of linearity.
- The importance of the housing market in Florida is congruously affected by the growing mortgage business in the state presently.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin congruus, from congruere 'agree' (see congruent), + -ous.
- -itous
- it's
- its
- it's a case of ——
- it's a deal
- it's a fair cop
- it's a free country
- it's (all) Greek to me
- it's all right for——
- it's a long lane that has no turning
- it's a long story
- it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
- itself
- it's no skin off my nose (or off my back)
- it's not on
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- it's no use crying over spilt (or spilled) milk
- it's (or that's) the story of one's life
- it's (or these are) early days
- (it) stands to reason
- it's the thought that counts
- itsy-bitsy
- it's your funeral
- it takes all sorts to make a world
- it takes two to tango