ACCORDANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accordant mean? 

• ACCORDANT (adjective)
  The adjective ACCORDANT has 2 senses:

1. being in agreement or harmony; often followed by 'with'

2. in keeping

  Familiarity information: ACCORDANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCORDANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in agreement or harmony; often followed by 'with'

Context example:

a place perfectly accordant with man's nature

Similar:

according ((followed by 'to') in agreement with or accordant with)

agreeable (prepared to agree or consent)

concordant; concurring (being of the same opinion)

consensual (existing by consent)

consentaneous; consentient; unanimous (in complete agreement)

Antonym:

discordant (not in agreement or harmony)

Derivation:

accord (go together)

accordance (concurrence of opinion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In keeping

Synonyms:

accordant; agreeable; concordant; conformable; consonant

Context example:

expressed views concordant with his background

Similar:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

 Context examples 

Their gentleness, their genuine attention to other people, and their manly unstudied simplicity is much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness—often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Both gentlemen had a glance at Fanny, to see if a word of accordant praise could be extorted from her; yet both feeling that it could not be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was perfectly accordant with that resolution of character which I knew her to possess; and the secrecy she had maintained, as to any such design in her former letter, was equally descriptive of its anxious delicacy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mary refrained from saying what she felt, that there could not be two persons in existence whose characters and manners were less accordant: time would discover it to him; but she could not help this reflection on the Admiral.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)