cohesive
/koʊˈhi.sɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a team welded into a cohesive unit"
- "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."
- "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."
- "“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.”"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /koʊˈhi.sɪv/
- British English: /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/
Inflected Forms
more cohesive (comparative)
most cohesive (superlative)
cohæsive (alternative, obsolete)
cohesives (plural)