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coincident

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of coincident

1 present at the same time and place

the hard economic times and the coincident increase in crime were a double strain on the cityʼs social services

Synonyms of coincident

accompanying, attendant, attending, coexistent, coexisting, coincidental, concomitant, concurrent

Words Related to coincident

contemporaneous, contemporary, simultaneous, synchronous

associated, collateral, connected, linked, related

consequent, resultant, resulting

ensuing, following, subsequent

accidental, casual, chance, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, freak, incident, incidental

Near Antonyms of coincident

unassociated, unconnected, unrelated

2 occupying the same space

a study to determine whether the areas with the highest family incomes were coincident with the locations boasting the highest percentage of college graduates

Synonyms of coincident

coextensive, coinciding, conterminous, coterminous

Words Related to coincident

allover, overlaying, superimposed, superposed, underlying

conjoining, crisscrossing, intersecting, overlapping

coaxial, concurrent, convergent

congruent, conjunctional

Near Antonyms of coincident

nonconcurrent, noncongruent

3 existing or occurring at the same period of time

coincident changes in the region's demographic makeup that were little noted at the time

Synonyms of coincident

coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coincidental, concurrent, contemporaneous, contemporary, coterminous, simultaneous, synchronic, synchronous

Words Related to coincident

accompanying, attendant, attending, concomitant, incident

Antonyms of coincident

asynchronous, noncontemporary, nonsimultaneous, nonsynchronous

Synonym Discussion of coincident

contemporary, contemporaneous, coeval, synchronous, simultaneous, coincident mean existing or occurring at the same time. contemporary is likely to apply to people and what relates to them.

- Abraham Lincoln was contemporary with Charles Darwin

contemporaneous is more often applied to events than to people.

- contemporaneous accounts of the kidnapping

coeval refers usually to periods, ages, eras, eons.

- two stars thought to be coeval

synchronous implies exact correspondence in time and especially in periodic intervals.

- synchronous timepieces

simultaneous implies correspondence in a moment of time.

- the two shots were simultaneous

coincident is applied to events and may be used in order to avoid implication of causal relationship.

- the end of World War II was coincident with a great vintage year

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