Agreeable vs Consistent - What's the difference?
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Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
* (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
(colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
* (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
* (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
Compatible, accordant.
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(logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
(in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.
* 1885 Catholic Dictionary 651
As adjectives the difference between agreeable and consistent
is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while consistent is of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.As nouns the difference between agreeable and consistent
is that agreeable is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable while consistent is (in the plural|rare) objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.agreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
- A train of agreeable reveries.
- These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
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English
(consistency)Adjective
(en adjective)- The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
- He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
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Antonyms
* inconsistent * contradictoryNoun
(en noun)- The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from East to West? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from West to East? How then can you make these motions being conferred on the Earth ... to become consistents ?
- The consistentes stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens.
