Hypertext Webster Gateway: "congruous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Congruous \Con"gru*ous\, a. [L. congruus, fr. congruere to come
together, to coincide, to agree. Of uncertain origin.]
Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious;
correspondent; consistent.
Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. --Blair.
It is no ways congruous that God should be always
frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth.
--Atterbury.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
congruous
adj 1: corresponding in character or kind [syn: {congruent}] [ant:
{incongruous}]
2: suitable or appropriate together
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