consistent

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
• Compatible, accordant.
• Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

Noun

• Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
• A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.

Related

Opposite words

• contradictory
• incompatible
• inconsistent

Broader meaning words

• penitent

Origin

• From Latin consistens, present participle of cōnsistō, from con- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ("beside, by, near, with")) + sistō (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti ("to be standing up; to be getting up"), from the root *steh₂-).