Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

consist in

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables: con-sist in
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part.

Example Sentences

"Tolerance consists in respecting other people’s opinions."
"When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, — in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart."
"It is that contact between the mind and things does not consist, at any level, in perceptions of simple data or in associations of such unities, but always consists in apprehensions of more or less “structured” complexes."

Inflected Forms

consists in (present, singular) consisting in (participle, present) consisted in (participle, past) consisted in (past)

Phrases

consist of

Frequently Paired Words

consist of

Questions

What does consist in mean?: To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part.

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