cohesive en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /koʊˈhi.sɪv/ (Canada, General-American)
- /kəʉˈhiː.sɪv/ (Australia)
- /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- /kɐʉˈhiː.səv/ (New-Zealand)
- [kəʉˈhɪi.sɪv] (Australia) cultivated
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
Meanings
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Having cohesion.
“It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me. “Part of that was that climate change isn’t real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God’s ideal for society.”
2017 April 13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:a team welded into a cohesive unit
The idea of loyalty to a single country and culture, particularly in East Asia, may also “imply the desire to maintain a cohesive ethnocultural identity,” said Dzankic, of GLOBALCIT.
2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cohæsive | alternative, obsolete, rare | lexicographic | |
| most cohesive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more cohesive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
loose · noncoherent · incohesive · unconnected · noncohesive · separate · incoherent
Deriveds
dyscohesive · cohesivity · noncohesive · cohesiveness · uncohesive · incohesive · discohesive · cohesive energy · cohesively
Hyponyms
infrangible · unsessile · solid · close-knit · undivided · unseparated · tight-knit · inextricable · inseparable
Relateds
coherent · coherence · cohere · adhesive · cohesion
Synonyms
unified · tenacious · consociated · coherent · united · cohesive · corporate
Translations (28)
cs soudržný (having cohesion) · eo kohera (having cohesion) · bg зацепващ (having cohesion) · ms kohesif (having cohesion) · tr yapışık (having cohesion) · it coeso (having cohesion) · fa منسجم (having cohesion) · ar مُتَنَاسِق (having cohesion) · ar مُتَمَاسِك (having cohesion) · gv co-ghreimmagh (having cohesion) · gv co-haait (having cohesion) · es cohesivo (having cohesion) · fi yhdistävä (having cohesion) · de zusammenhängend (having cohesion) · gv lhiantynagh (having cohesion) · ru сплочённый (having cohesion) · id kohesif (having cohesion) · pt coeso (having cohesion) · ro coerent (having cohesion) · el συνεκτικός (having cohesion) · tr yapışkan (having cohesion) · bg свързващ (having cohesion) · tr bağlı (having cohesion) · ms jeleket (having cohesion) · ro coeziv (having cohesion) · ru свя́занный (having cohesion) · sv sammanhängande (having cohesion) · ca cohesiu (having cohesion)