cohesive

CEFRB2

/kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/

adjective

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adjective
Closely united and working well together.
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adjective
Extra detail
A device used to establish cohesion within a text

Examples

A text could be coherent but not cohesive, and vice versa.
The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

[kəʉˈhɪi.sɪv]
/koʊˈhi.sɪv/

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adjective

Extra meanings

A substance that provides cohesion
Having cohesion.

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In context

Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.

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The group remained blank despite facing numerous external pressures.

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Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
“It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me. “Part of that was that climate change isn’t real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God’s ideal for society.”
2017 April 13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020
The idea of loyalty to a single country and culture, particularly in East Asia, may also “imply the desire to maintain a cohesive ethnocultural identity,” said Dzankic, of GLOBALCIT.
2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN
The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is, →ISBN

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Origin

adjective

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

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The group remained blank— despite facing numerous external pressures.

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adjective

The group remained blank despite facing numerous external pressures.