Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in keeping with

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English

Syllables: in- -keep-ing with
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep

in accordance with

Example Sentences

"Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so."
"In keeping with the stock they are replacing, the B23s are fully automated."
"The Cop28 presidency released a draft text in the early evening on Monday, which called for “reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, so as to achieve net zero by, before or around 2050, in keeping with the science”."
"The goal was scruffy, with some debate over whether Johnson got the last touch - and was totally in keeping with the tepid domestic seasons of these two underperforming sides, but no-one at Spurs will care about that."

Antonyms

out of keeping with

Questions

What does in keeping with mean?: in accordance with

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