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 That lovingness matches, in a weird way, the tone of Death’s monologues, which, despite a constant Catskills-esque patter of dark jokes about the daily vagaries and indignities of his work, often sound like a companionate essay by Jacobs-Jenkins. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for companionate
  1. harmonious
  2. balanced
  3. consonant
  4. decorous
  5. congruous
  6. respectable
  7. satisfactory
  8. correct
Adjective
  • With a bar in front, a hallway-like dining strip, and a cozy back room, the space feels more harmonious with Somssi’s easygoing à-la-carte offerings.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
  • Choose a Primary Metal Getting the ratio of metals right is key to a harmonious design.
    — Kristin Hohenadel, The Spruce, 24 July 2026
Definition of harmonious
Adjective
  • Ideally, Sammis will ask less of Craig than Briles did of Hoover and TCU will have its most balanced offense since 2022.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 July 2026
  • While some of the options flows are getting more balanced between bulls and bears, the biggest single SpaceX trades of the day on Monday were neutral to bullish.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 28 July 2026
Definition of balanced
Adjective
  • The film’s treatment of Odysseus’s lies, too, seems consonant with the Ten Commandments instead of Homer’s moral worldview.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026
  • 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
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
  • The battery can accept up to 100kW of DC charging, which is a respectable figure for a plug-in hybrid and faster than some pure-electric cars can manage.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • That’s a perfectly respectable field, though most of the players are likely unknown to casual sports fans.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of respectable
Adjective
  • This matters because ringing up more sales outside the morning coffee rush can help keep Starbucks’ comps growing at satisfactory clips as year-over-year comparisons get tougher.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 30 July 2026
  • Police responses can also lead to trauma for that person or a less satisfactory outcome than another community service response would produce, Duckett said.
    — Scott Maucione, NPR, 27 July 2026
Definition of satisfactory
Adjective
  • Xcel had to get the correct permits from local municipalities as well as stormwater permitting, and have an environmental survey done to protect burrowing owls.
    — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Fortunately, home run bets are long-shot wagers, so bettors don’t need to get many correct to generate a profit.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of correct

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“Companionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/companionate. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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