consistent

consistent
    adj 1: (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent
           or reliable; "testimony consistent with the known facts";
           "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am
           following is consistent with my sense of responsibility
           as president in time of war"- FDR [ant: {inconsistent}]
    2: capable of being reproduced; "astonishingly reproducible
       results can be obtained" [syn: {reproducible}, {consistent}]
       [ant: {irreproducible}, {unreproducible}]
    3: marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent
       relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [syn: {coherent},
       {consistent}, {logical}, {ordered}] [ant: {incoherent}]
    4: the same throughout in structure or composition; "bituminous
       coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous
       product" [syn: {consistent}, {uniform}]
    

Consistent \Con*sist"ent\, a. [L. consistens, p. pr.: cf. F.
   consistant.]
   1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
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            The humoral and consistent parts of the body.
                                                  --Harvey.
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   2. Having agreement with itself or with something else;
      having harmony among its parts; possesing unity;
      accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not
      contradictory.
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            Show me one that has it in his power
            To act consistent with himself an hour. --Pope.
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            With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be
            free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent.
                                                  --South.
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   3. Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or
      professions.
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            It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and
            a conspirator.                        --Macaulay.
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CONSISTENT. That which agrees with something else; as a consistent 
condition, which is one which agrees with all other parts of a contract, or 
which can be reconciled with every other part. 1 Bouv. Just. n. 752, 
    

162 Moby Thesaurus words for "consistent":
      accordant, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike, answerable,
      at one, authoritative, automatic, balanced, binding, clean-cut,
      clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coexistent,
      coexisting, cogent, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate,
      compatible, concordant, concurring, conformable, conforming,
      congenial, congruent, congruous, connected, consecutive,
      consentaneous, consentient, consonant, constant, continuous,
      cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, crisp,
      crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, dependable, devoted,
      direct, distinct, en rapport, equable, equal, equivalent, even,
      explicit, express, faithful, firm, flat, good, harmonious,
      homogeneous, immutable, in accord, in agreement, in harmony,
      in keeping, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance,
      inharmony, invariable, joined, just, lawful, legal, legitimate,
      level, like-minded, limpid, logical, loud and clear, loyal, lucid,
      luminous, marble-constant, measured, mechanical, methodic,
      monolithic, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours,
      ordered, orderly, pellucid, persistent, perspicuous, plain,
      positive, predictable, proportionate, reconcilable, regular,
      robotlike, self-consistent, sequent, sequential, serial, simple,
      smooth, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady,
      straightforward, substantial, sufficient, symbiotic, sympathetic,
      synchronized, synchronous, systematic, tight, translucent,
      transparent, transpicuous, true, true-blue, unambiguous, unanimous,
      unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconfused,
      undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unequivocal,
      unfailing, uniform, uninterrupted, unisonant, unisonous, univocal,
      unmistakable, unruffled, unswerving, unvaried, unvarying, valid,
      weighty, well-defined, well-founded, well-grounded