Concomitant
[kən'kɒmɪt(ə)nt] or [kən'kɑmətənt]
Definition
(a.) Accompanying; conjoined; attending.
(n.) One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment.
Edited by Darrell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Accompanying, concurrent, attendant, attending, conjoined.
n. Attendant, accessory, accompaniment.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous
ANT:Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent, irrelative
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Definition
adj. accompanying or going along with: conjoined with.—n. he who or that which accompanies.—ns. Concom′itance Concom′itancy state of being concomitant.—adv. Concom′itantly.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- He knew that his spirituality was concomitant of a process of depravity, a sort of pleasure in self-destruction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In my experience I had not met with truth, modesty, good principle as the concomitants of beauty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Accident and disease, however, are the inseparable concomitants of human existence, and suffering and pain the ineffaceable legacies of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The panic struck appeared of more injury, than disease and its natural concomitants. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its peculiar mischief lay not in the fighting, but in the concomitants of the fighting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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