coherent
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for coherent
Synonyms
analytic (or analytical), consequent, good, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded
Antonyms
illegitimate, illogical, incoherent, inconsequent, inconsequential, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unsound, weak
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The action is cleaner, the choreography more coherent. — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, "Bumblebee proves Transformers movies can actually be resonant and emotional," 20 Dec. 2018 Just going from problem to problem without really having a coherent point of view? — Peter Kafka, Recode, "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talked to NYU’s Jay Rosen for an hour, on the record. Read and listen to the full interview here.," 14 Sep. 2018 There’s never been a coherent telling [of the Studio 54 story]—largely because Ian Schrager, the co-founder, had never spoken at any length about it, the full picture had yet to be seen. — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, "Ian Schrager Opens Up For the First Time About What Really Happened at Studio 54," 3 Oct. 2018 But even if the pieces don’t end up coming together in a coherent whole in the final game, Spider-Man still looks like a blast to play. — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, "The first hour of Spider-Man on the PS4 strains against the limits of open-world storytelling," 2 Aug. 2018 Director/screenwriter Culver doesn't succeed in blending the complex storyline's romantic, comedic and thriller elements into a coherent whole. — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, "'No Postage Necessary': Film Review," 4 July 2018 The speed and distances shown on screen, according to the film’s director, were all for the sake of clean, coherent storytelling. — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, "What 'Hunter Killer' Gets Right About Submarine Warfare," 7 Nov. 2018 There’s no simple answer, in part because the uses of media are too varied for the question to really be coherent. — Cathleen O'grady, Ars Technica, "What do we actually know about the risks of screen time and digital media?," 17 Oct. 2018 The question of justice for C.K. is coherent only via a weird sort of tunnel vision. — David Roberts, Vox, "What so many men are missing about #MeToo," 10 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'coherent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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coherent
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of coherent
: logical and well-organized : easy to understand
: able to talk or express yourself in a clear way that can be easily understood
: working closely and well together
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coherent
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