Crossword clues for congruous
congruous
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 correspond in character. 2 harmonious.
WordNet
adj. corresponding in character or kind [syn: congruent] [ant: incongruous]
suitable or appropriate together
Usage examples of "congruous".
The idea that the perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is congruous with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are rarely, if ever, open to question.
He said that what one experiences in "dreaming" has to be congruous with the time of the day when "dreaming" was taking place.
The act of swimming on the floor, which was congruous with other strange and bewildering acts he had performed in front of my very eyes, started as he was lying face down.
My statement was congruous with what I had perceived and was not intended as a joke, but they took it as perhaps the most hilarious statement that anyone had made that day.
But if this worship had been performed as the symbolism of ideas at least congruous with religion, though it would indeed have been cause of grief that the true God was not announced and proclaimed by its symbolism, nevertheless it could have been in some degree borne with, when it did not occasion and command the performance of such foul and abominable things.
In Tensegrity, this group is called The Heat Series, in order to make it more congruous with the aims of Tensegrity, which are extremely pragmatic on the one hand and extremely abstract on the other, such as the practical utilization of energy for well-being coupled with the abstract idea of how that energy is obtained.
If we follow any one of them, or if we follow philosophical theory and embrace monistic pantheism on non-mystical grounds, we do so in the exercise of our individual freedom, and build out our religion in the way most congruous with our personal susceptibilities.