| 单词 | consistent |
| 释义 | consistent (once / 200 pages) adj If you get the same Donkey Kong score every time you play, you're consistent. It's consistent with video-game addiction, however, that you will continue to play in the hopes of beating that score. Consistent is related to the word consist, which refers to what something is made of—"bread dough consists of flour, water, and salt." Consistency describes texture—a consistent consistency would be brownies as rock-hard in the center as they are at the edge––hopefully, next time you bake you'll get inconsistent results. WORD FAMILYconsistent: consistently, inconsistent, self-consistent+/inconsistency: inconsistencies/inconsistent: inconsistency, inconsistently USAGE EXAMPLESAnd the evidence on the benefit of vaccines is consistent and voluminous. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) This regular season finale provided fresh torture for a franchise that hasn’t found consistent success in a quarter century. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) This finding — that people are reflexively prone to “intergroup bias” in punishment — is consistent with what many scientists believe about humans’ evolutionary heritage. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1adj the same throughout in structure or composition bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product Syn uniform homogeneous, homogenous all of the same or similar kind or nature 2adj marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts Syn|Ant coherent, logical, ordered seamless perfectly consistent and coherent logicalcapable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning rationalconsistent with or based on or using reason incoherent without logical or meaningful connection confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnectedlacking orderly continuity fuzzyconfused and not coherent; not clearly thought out illogical, unlogicallacking in correct logical relation irrationalnot consistent with or using reason 3adj (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable testimony consistent with the known facts "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR Syn|Ant accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant in keeping pursuant(followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with reconciledmade compatible or consistent self-consistentnot self-contradictory unchangingconforming to the same principles or course of action over time invariablenot liable to or capable of change inconsistent displaying a lack of consistency at odds, conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictoryin disagreement discrepant, incompatiblenot compatible with other facts scratchy, spotty, unevenlacking consistency unconformablenot correspondent unreconcilednot made consistent or compatible variableliable to or capable of change 4adj capable of being reproduced Syn|Ant reproducible duplicable, duplicatable capable of being duplicated irreproducible, unreproducible impossible to reproduce or duplicate inimitabledefying imitation; matchless unrepeatableunique |
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