congruous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: con=gru=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

congruous, a. [L. congruus, fr. congruere to come together, to coincide, to agree. Of uncertain origin.].

 Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.  [1913 Webster]
"Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry."  [1913 Webster]
"It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

congruous, adj. (often foll. by with) suitable, agreeing; fitting.

Derivative

congruity n. congruously adv.

Etymology

L congruus (as congruent)

THESAURUS

congruous

accordant, advantageous, advisable, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, answerable, appropriate, at one, becoming, befitting, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, convenient, cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, decent, desirable, en rapport, equivalent, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, good, happy, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, like-minded, likely, meet, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, opportune, politic, positive, profitable, proper, proportionate, recommendable, reconcilable, right, seasonable, seemly, self-consistent, sortable, suitable, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, timely, to be desired, unanimous, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, useful, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

congruous

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.