COHERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coherently mean? 

• COHERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb COHERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a coherent manner

  Familiarity information: COHERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a coherent manner

Context example:

she could not talk coherently after the accident

Antonym:

incoherently (in an incoherent manner)

Pertainym:

coherent (capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner)

 Context examples 

He actually sat crying in an armchair, and I could hardly get him to speak coherently.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I answered as quickly and coherently as I could that I had only got his telegram early in the morning, and had not lost a minute in coming here, and that I could not make any one in the house hear me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most moderate—most correct; and, having reflected a few minutes in order to arrange coherently what I had to say, I told her all the story of my sad childhood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)