accordant

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /əˈkɔrdənt/ UK /əˈkɔːdənt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
agreeing or consistent with something; in harmony

His actions were entirely accordant with the principles he professed.

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Synonyms

1 adj · agreeing or consistent with... consistent harmonious agreeing congruous conformable consonant

Opposites

discordant inconsistent incongruous conflicting

Word family

Derived forms accordantly

Related forms accord accordance concordant

Etymology

From Old French acordant, present participle of acorder ('to reconcile'), from Vulgar Latin accordāre, from Latin ad- ('to') + cor ('heart').

accordāre Vulgar Latin cor Latin

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# accordant

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /əˈkɔrdənt/
**IPA (UK):** /əˈkɔːdənt/

## Meanings
1. agreeing or consistent with something; in harmony

## Examples
- His actions were entirely accordant with the principles he professed.

## Synonyms
- consistent
- harmonious
- agreeing
- congruous
- conformable
- consonant

## Antonyms
- discordant
- inconsistent
- incongruous
- conflicting

## Derived Forms
- accordantly

## Related Forms
- accord
- accordance
- concordant

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: accordāre
- Root: cor

## Etymology
From Old French acordant, present participle of acorder ('to reconcile'), from Vulgar Latin accordāre, from Latin ad- ('to') + cor ('heart').

## AI Etymology
accordant comes from Old French acordant, present participle of acorder ('to reconcile'), from Vulgar Latin accordāre, from Latin ad- ('to') + cor ('heart'). Morphologically, the word is transparent as a compound: its parts remain visible in the modern spelling, while the older history of those parts supplies the deeper ancestry. In modern use, the adjective sense is "agreeing or consistent with something; in harmony", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as accord, accordance, concordant and derivatives such as accordantly, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include Vulgar Latin accordāre, Latin cor, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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