cohesive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cohesive
    adj 1: causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"
    2: cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive
       organization"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cohesive \Co*he"sive\, a.
   1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as,
      cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive
      force.
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   2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of
      cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
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   {Cohesive attraction}. See under {Attraction}. --
      {Co*he"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Co*he"sive*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "cohesive":
      adhering, agglutinate, cartilaginous, chewy, cleaving, clinging,
      coherent, cohering, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard,
      hardy, holding together, impartible, indiscerptible, indissoluble,
      indissolvable, indivisible, infrangible, infusible, inseparable,
      insoluble, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, resistant, ropy, sinewy,
      sticking, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, stuck, tenacious,
      tough, tough as leather, undividable, unified, untiring, vigorous,
      viscid, wiry

    

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