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词汇 congruous
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Definition of congruous in English:

congruous

adjective ˈkɒŋɡrʊəsˈkɑŋɡruəs
  • In agreement or harmony.

    一致的,符合的;和谐的

    this explanation is congruous with earlier observations

    此解释与初期观察报告相一致。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To persuade students that popular culture is congruous with critical analysis, then, media educators should consider using creative metaphors to jar students into looking at popular culture in new ways.
    • Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family.
    • As a family, we only request that an effort be made to create an atmosphere that is congruous with our Jewish values.
    • But these efforts are wasted if the copy is stale or lacks a congruous theme.
    • And our previous name and layout wasn't congruous with what we were doing.
    • An analysis for reliability and validity shows that the responses to these two questions are congruous and measure the same magnitude.
    • An international business firm has to devise a system of compensation and reward for extra effort for its employees congruous with the prevailing attitudes to work in the host culture.
    • Perspective by incongruity is one tool that instructors can use to persuade students that the media are congruous with critical analysis and not merely with entertainment and escape.
    • But perhaps the highlight of the album, rather than any specific moment, is its ability to retain a congruous vision without ever growing stale within the confines of its own sonic inclinations.
    • Altogether his work has a distinctive, congruous voice, but individually his films are produced with very dissimilar methods and motives.
    • Not always do our plans materialize; not always do our expectations fetch congruous results; not always do our efforts bear fruit.
    • For such people summer is congruous with added misery courtesy of the frequent power failures and water shortages.
    • All these elements which have some mutual conflict of interest are congruous with the inferior part of the universe which we call earth.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • A bright orange ball of fire was setting silently into a landscape of rippled dark blue, congruous to a watercolor painting - perfect, calm, and passionate - all at once.
    • Moderate stylization and antirealism that falls short of true expressionism is sometimes enough to soothe congruous crudity into an effectively intensified sensibility, if the idiom is correct.
    • His work is nothing if not congruous and consistently rewarding.
    • First, three years ago, the original team, while they did many things well, failed to design and build a user interface that offered a considerate, congruous user experience that anticipates the user's needs.
    • A meat-eater may become upset when it is suggested that her everyday eating habits contribute to the destruction of the rain forests; to the meat-eater, the hamburger is congruous with sustenance, not destruction.
    Synonyms
    suitable, proper, fitting, apt

Derivatives

  • congruity

  • noun kənˈɡruːɪtikəŋˈɡruədi
    • The recorded commentaries struck a fine congruity between historical details and interesting human insights into what had happened in those resplendent rooms.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet it is a mistake to interpret the current close alliance as a congruity of interests.
      • What I have been trying to do is define a congruity or community of interest between farmers and conservationists who are not farmers.
      • In an age when a Catholic leader and writer strikes a note of congruity, one is more shocked than pleased.
      • One cannot overlook the conceptual congruity between the concepts of damp stagnation (defined as pathological body fluids clogging the organs and channels) and peripheral tissue resistance, due to obesity.
  • congruously

  • adverb ˈkɒŋɡrʊəsliˈkɑŋɡruəsli
    • Of particular note is the ingenious use of CGI throughout the features, blended so congruously into the animation that you barely notice its presence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A heavy shellac gives an overall luminescence to the work and the only congruously identifying factor is his intricate use of linearity.
      • Rather, the Byronic postmodern redefines the historical and social formations called romanticism and postmodernism, and offers them instead as aesthetic impulses that appeal congruously to those artists whose sexual aesthetics overwhelm their perception of the art form.
      • The importance of the housing market in Florida is congruously affected by the growing mortgage business in the state presently.
      • No one part of the system drives or causes another part to act, but the parts act congruously, thus allowing the deep innate potential of the entire system to emerge and come to expression in the parts.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin congruus, from congruere 'agree' (see congruent), + -ous.

Definition of congruous in US English:

congruous

adjectiveˈkɑŋɡruəsˈkäNGɡro͞oəs
  • In agreement or harmony.

    一致的,符合的;和谐的

    this explanation is congruous with earlier observations

    此解释与初期观察报告相一致。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, three years ago, the original team, while they did many things well, failed to design and build a user interface that offered a considerate, congruous user experience that anticipates the user's needs.
    • An analysis for reliability and validity shows that the responses to these two questions are congruous and measure the same magnitude.
    • An international business firm has to devise a system of compensation and reward for extra effort for its employees congruous with the prevailing attitudes to work in the host culture.
    • But these efforts are wasted if the copy is stale or lacks a congruous theme.
    • And our previous name and layout wasn't congruous with what we were doing.
    • 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.
    • A meat-eater may become upset when it is suggested that her everyday eating habits contribute to the destruction of the rain forests; to the meat-eater, the hamburger is congruous with sustenance, not destruction.
    • As a family, we only request that an effort be made to create an atmosphere that is congruous with our Jewish values.
    • For such people summer is congruous with added misery courtesy of the frequent power failures and water shortages.
    • Not always do our plans materialize; not always do our expectations fetch congruous results; not always do our efforts bear fruit.
    • 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.
    • Moderate stylization and antirealism that falls short of true expressionism is sometimes enough to soothe congruous crudity into an effectively intensified sensibility, if the idiom is correct.
    • To persuade students that popular culture is congruous with critical analysis, then, media educators should consider using creative metaphors to jar students into looking at popular culture in new ways.
    • Perspective by incongruity is one tool that instructors can use to persuade students that the media are congruous with critical analysis and not merely with entertainment and escape.
    • His work is nothing if not congruous and consistently rewarding.
    • Altogether his work has a distinctive, congruous voice, but individually his films are produced with very dissimilar methods and motives.
    • All these elements which have some mutual conflict of interest are congruous with the inferior part of the universe which we call earth.
    • Rather, she keeps close to home, a location that metonymically signals that her interests are congruous with the interests of her husband and family.
    • But perhaps the highlight of the album, rather than any specific moment, is its ability to retain a congruous vision without ever growing stale within the confines of its own sonic inclinations.
    • A bright orange ball of fire was setting silently into a landscape of rippled dark blue, congruous to a watercolor painting - perfect, calm, and passionate - all at once.
    Synonyms
    suitable, proper, fitting, apt

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin congruus, from congruere ‘agree’ (see congruent), + -ous.

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