| 单词 | coherent |
| 释义 | coherent (once / 868 pages) 1adj 2adj Something coherent is logical and clear. "I told you if you didn't do your homework you couldn't watch TV. You didn't do your homework so you can't watch TV." This is a coherent argument (and annoying as well). The thing about such coherent arguments, as your Mom well knows, is that they are also easily and clearly understood. If someone speaks coherently, they are speaking clearly and lucidly. A slight variation on the meaning comes in the sense of something that is united clearly as a whole and a recognizable entity. You might say, for example, that New York City is a "culturally coherent region" within the United States. WORD FAMILYcoherent: coherently, incoherent+/cohere: cohered, coherence, coherency, coherent, coheres, cohering, cohesion, cohesive/coherence: coherences/coherency: coherencies/cohesion: cohesions/cohesive: cohesively, cohesiveness/incoherence: incoherences/incoherency: incoherencies/incoherent: incoherence, incoherency, incoherently USAGE EXAMPLESHe thought about the man becoming “more coherent and there’s no one there for him,” Semnani said. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Heidecker, playing his delusional self-involved alter ego on On Cinema, reads a marginally coherent prepared speech. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) And doing better will require a coherent plan from the White House, not just helter-skelter private projects. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1adj marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts a coherent argument Syn|Ant consistent, logical, ordered seamless perfectly consistent and coherent logicalcapable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning rationalconsistent with or based on or using reason incoherent without logical or meaningful connection confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnectedlacking orderly continuity fuzzyconfused and not coherent; not clearly thought out illogical, unlogicallacking in correct logical relation irrationalnot consistent with or using reason 2adj (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation Ant incoherent (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation 3adj capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner 2she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident Syn logical, lucid rational consistent with or based on or using reason adj sticking together two coherent sheets Syn tenacious adhesive tending to adhere |
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