consistent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Behaving or happening in the same way over time; dependable.

   She is a consistent performer who rarely makes mistakes.

2. 2
   adj

   In agreement with something else; not contradicting it.

   Their testimony was consistent with the known facts.

Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).

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