concomitant

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

1. hunger, a lack of education, and other concomitants of poverty
2. <disease is all too often one of the concomitants of poverty>
3. … 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
4. 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

Origin of CONCOMITANT

(see ¹concomitant)

First Known Use: 1621

Related to CONCOMITANT

Synonyms: attendant, companion, accompaniment, corollary, incident, obbligato

Related Words: accessory (also accessary), adjunct, appendage; complement, supplement; counterpart, fellow, mate; consequence, follow-up; fixings, trimmings

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