coherent

CEFRC1

/kəʊˈhɪə.ɹənt/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.
A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
Perhaps Khrushchev did have a coherent plan in mind at the time he placed the nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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These people professed that the universe was one coherent thing; but they were not fond of the universe.
1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter IV, in Orthodoxy
A sentence like this one cannot be understood unless somehow we can store the underlined words for several seconds, while we wait for the rest of the sentence to arrive, with the information needed to complete a coherent thought.
1997, Bernard J. Baars, “Psychology in a World of Sentient, Self-Knowing Beings: A Modest Utopian Fantasy”, in Robert L. Solso, editor, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century...
Anglia, is part of a wider phenomenon of the seventh century - the development of recognisable, coherent kingdoms from the fragmented tribal society which emerged from the ruins of Roman Britain.
2005, Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk Coast and Heaths, Windgather, published 2005, →ISBN, page 15
She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence.
2011, Claire Klein Datnow, Behind the Walled Garden of Apartheid: Growing Up White in Segregated South Africa, Media Mint Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 124
At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.
1904 December, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC

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From Middle French coherent, from Latin cohaērēns, from co- + haereō. By surface analysis, cohere + -ent.