concomitant
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adjective \kən-ˈkä-mə-tənt, kän-\Definition of CONCOMITANT
: accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way
— con·com·i·tant·ly adverb
See Examples of CONCOMITANT
- The drug's risks increase with the concomitant use of alcohol.
- <an improvement in the facilities led to a concomitant improvement in morale>
- … Christopher Walken delivers his customary edge without any of his clichéd, concomitant weirdness. —Stephen Whitty, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Feb. 1999
- The Lincoln and Johnson plans for settling the problems of peace and freedom never seriously touched on the concomitant problem of equality. —John Hope Franklin, “The Two Worlds of Race,” 1965, in Race and History, 1989
- But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them. —Thomas Jefferson, 4 Feb. 1818, in Thomas Jefferson: Writings1984
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Origin of CONCOMITANT
Latin concomitant-, concomitans, present participle of concomitari to accompany, from com- + comitari to accompany, from comit-, comes companion — more at count
First Known Use: 1607
Related to CONCOMITANT
- Synonyms
- accompanying, attendant, attending, coexistent, coexisting, coincidental, coincident, concurrent
2con·com·i·tant
noun \kən-ˈkä-mə-tənt, kän-\Definition of CONCOMITANT
: something that accompanies or is collaterally connected with something else : accompaniment
Examples of CONCOMITANT
- hunger, a lack of education, and other concomitants of poverty
- <disease is all too often one of the concomitants of poverty>
- … there is a demand for schools, professional services, and such other concomitants of a full society as courthouses and jails. —Anthony Bailey, New Yorker, 25 May 1987
- In the local bickering which was a concomitant of the grand campaigns of the wars, there may have been considerable fighting around fortifications, even if on a relatively small and brief scale. —Anthony Goodman, The War of the Roses, (1981) 1996
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Origin of CONCOMITANT
(see 1concomitant)
First Known Use: 1621
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