different between seemly vs consonant

English

Etymology

From Middle English semely, semelich, semelike, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem +? -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?mli/

Adjective

seemly (comparative seemlier, superlative seemliest)

1. (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.

   His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

Synonyms

• apposite

Antonyms

• unseemly

Derived terms

• seemlihead
• seemlily
• seemliness

Translations

Adverb

seemly (comparative more seemly, superlative most seemly)

1. Appropriately, fittingly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

Anagrams

• Mesley, Semley

English

Etymology

From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin c?nson?ns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle son?ns (“sounding”), from son?re (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (súmph?non).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?n's?n?nt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/
• (US) enPR: kän's(?)n?nt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/, /?k?ns.n?nt/

Noun

consonant (plural consonants)

1. (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
2. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

Translations

Adjective

consonant (comparative more consonant, superlative most consonant)

1. Characterized by harmony or agreement.
   • 1710, William Beveridge, The true nature of the Christian church, the office of its ministers, and the means of grace administred by them explain'd. In twelve sermons

     Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.

   • 1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, "The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican", in Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

     Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.

   • 1946, United States Supreme Court, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331,334

     This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.

2. Having the same sound.
   • 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae

     consonant words and syllables

3. (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.

   consonant tones; consonant chords

4. Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
   • 1813, Thomas Moore, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag

     No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:consonant.

Antonyms

• disconsonant
• dissonant
• discordant

Related terms

• consonance
• consonantal

Translations

See also

• vowel
• semivowel
• Wikipedia article on consonants

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin consonans, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.so?nant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.su?nan/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

consonant (masculine and feminine plural consonants)

1. consonant

Noun

consonant f (plural consonants)

1. consonant

Derived terms

• consonàntic

References

Further reading

• “consonant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “consonant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “consonant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?kõ?s??nän?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?k?ns?n?n?t?]

Verb

c?nsonant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of c?nson?