congruous
/ˈkɒŋɡrʊəs
/adjective
In agreement or harmony: this explanation is congruous with earlier observations...
- 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.
- And our previous name and layout wasn't congruous with what we were doing.
- 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.
Derivatives
congruity
/ noun ...- The recorded commentaries struck a fine congruity between historical details and interesting human insights into what had happened in those resplendent rooms.
- In an age when a Catholic leader and writer strikes a note of congruity, one is more shocked than pleased.
- Yet it is a mistake to interpret the current close alliance as a congruity of interests.
congruously
/ adverb ...- Of particular note is the ingenious use of CGI throughout the features, blended so congruously into the animation that you barely notice its presence.
- A heavy shellac gives an overall luminescence to the work and the only congruously identifying factor is his intricate use of linearity.
- The importance of the housing market in Florida is congruously affected by the growing mortgage business in the state presently.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin congruus, from congruere 'agree' (see congruent), + -ous.