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Consonant vs Apropos - What's the difference?

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Consonant is a related term of apropos.


As adjectives the difference between consonant and apropos

is that consonant is characterized by harmony or agreement while apropos is .

As a noun consonant

is (lb) a sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

consonant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  • A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant , and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by harmony or agreement.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
    • Each one pretends that his opinion is consonant to the words there used.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
  • Having the same sound.
  • * Howell
    • consonant words and syllables
  • (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
    • consonant''' tones; '''consonant chords
  • Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
  • * T. Moore
    • No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "consonant")

    Antonyms

    * disconsonant * discordant

    Related terms

    * consonance

    See also

    * vowel * semivowel * ----

    apropos

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
  • * 1877 , ,
    • Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
  • by the way, incidental.
  • * 1877 ,
    • Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."

    Synonyms

    * (by the way) by the way, incidentally, incidental

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Regarding or concerning.
  • * 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
    • Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).

    Antonyms

    * malapropos

    Derived terms

    * apropos of * apropos of nothing

    Adverb

    (head)
  • By the way.
  • Timely; at a good time.

    • Anagrams

    * ----