companionate

adjective

Definition of companionatenext
as in harmonious

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Recent Examples of companionate What matters more in long-term relationships is companionate love, where the partners have a calmer, friendship-like connection. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025 For parents needing to refine the companionate element of their relationship, Brooks advised scheduling thirty minutes each day to talk about your day, worries or interests with each other. — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025 For many couples, romantic feelings can evolve into a companionate bond over time. — Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 This kind of familiarity—a way of talking through the screen, jostling past even the most interesting particulars set forward in a script—can make a performer a kind of alien, companionate presence onscreen. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024 These examples make a case for animals having emotional attachments, not unlike companionate love in humans. — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021 That’s because companionate love (for a long-term partner), romantic love and lust are orchestrated by three different brain systems, which operate in tandem. — Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2020 Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life. — Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for companionate
  1. harmonious
  2. balanced
  3. consonant
  4. decorous
  5. congruous
  6. respectable
  7. satisfactory
  8. correct
Adjective
  • Second, adding synthetic fertilizers rich in phosphorus or nitrogen can disrupt the harmonious partnership between plants and microbes.
    — Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • Passionate Mars lights your 11th House of Friends and Community, forming a harmonious trine to transformative Pluto in your 7th House of Partnership.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2026
Definition of harmonious
Adjective
  • Compared to stock configurations, trucks equipped with side steps often appear more complete, balanced, and premium.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 July 2026
  • Who Should Avoid or Limit Fruit Most people will be able to comfortably eat a variety of fruits as part of a balanced diet.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 13 July 2026
Definition of balanced
Adjective
  • But recent research found that members of the Tsimane’, a native Amazonian society in Bolivia, rate consonant and dissonant chords as equally pleasurable.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The method of literacy instruction is often associated with smaller letter sounds, like consonant blends or syllables.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of consonant
Adjective
  • The press coverage in Austria and Germany had been relatively decorous.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • This is a lovely, if rather decorous and reverent, tale of an illicit affair that’s unlikely to cause as much noise as Dhont’s last two films.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
Definition of decorous
Adjective
  • Hannah is a sustainability consultant and climate impact manager, which is congruous with an outdoor ethos and the culture around bike guiding.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • On the pool deck, a minimalist railing acts as a congruous border to this backyard retreat.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
Definition of congruous
Adjective
  • There will be gratitude for how James made the Cavs respectable again during his first run (2003-2010).
    — Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The pixel density is the same on both the old and new monitors, at a respectable 110 pixels per inch (ppi).
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
Definition of respectable
Adjective
  • The fifth season will have a really hard time wrapping up everything in a satisfactory way at this point.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Kelley said the company believed the existing easement was satisfactory and wasn’t told otherwise until after investing years of work on he project.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
Definition of satisfactory
Adjective
  • Once the outcome is decided, a correct contract is worth $1 and an incorrect contract is worth nothing.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
  • But if our estimates stand, our figure is substantially lower than some more sensational reports, which may not be correct in attributing bigger hikes in electric bills to data centers.
    — Daniel Yue, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Definition of correct

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