Conform
[kən'fɔːm] or [kən'fɔrm]
Definition
(a.) Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
(v. t.) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.
(v. i.) To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.
(v. i.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.
Checker: Mara
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Make conformable, bring into compliance.
v. n. [1]. Comply, yield assent.[2]. Agree, harmonize, tally, square, quadrate, correspond, comport.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield
ANT:Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt
Editor: Sasha
Definition
v.t. to make like or of the same form with: to adapt.—v.i. to be of the same form; to comply: to obey.—n. Conformabil′ity state of being conformable.—adj. Conform′able corresponding in form: suitable: compliant.—adv. Conform′ably.—ns. Conformā′tion particular form shape or structure: adaptation; Conform′er Conform′ist one who conforms esp. with the worship of the Established Church; Conform′ity likeness: compliance: consistency.—In conformity with in accordance with.
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Examples
- Suitable directions will at once be given for all trains and surplus artillery to conform to this movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, but we are not to conform to nature; I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is one thing to know virtue, and another to conform the will to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They conform to the general design and decoration of the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nature is supposed to furnish the law and the end of development; ours it is to follow and conform to her ways. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For those earnest men and women in Chicago did not set out to find a way of abolishing prostitution; they set out to find a way that would conform to four idols they worshiped. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sculpture and painting equally with music must conform to the law of simplicity. Plato. The Republic.
- It conforms to the downward curve of the latter, but the rail work begins at the top of the incline and extends back to the newel post at the bowler’s end of the alley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But European society is not given to divorce: Countess Olenska thought she would be conforming to American ideas in asking for her freedom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Martin