concrescent

Examples

• All

• The Renascent African, he declared, must be reckoned with as a concrescent factor in the peace of the world.

  Academic text (2007)

• How, he wondered, could Nigeria, "a concrescent factor in the study of world affairs," which possessed abundant human and natural resources, comprising one-fifth of the territory, one-half of the population, and one-third of the revenue of British colonial Africa, and thus capable of being ranked among the economic powers of the world, lack the political power to transform its resources into a democracy that could provide a high standard of living for its people?

  Academic text (2007)

• As the two rivers met, they became a concrescent flow, merging into one.

• The concrescent growth of the community helped improve local resources and support.

Synonyms

C

coalescent

vsconcrescent

1 8.4

Joining together to make one thing

emphasizes union through natural growth rather than generic fusion

C

coalescing

vsconcrescent

6.8

Growing or joining together to form a single whole

is about joining through natural growth rather than any fusion

C

connate

vsconcrescent

• Specialized

9.9

Joined together at the base, as in some leaves or petals

describes growth into a single whole rather than just base joining

Antonyms

D

disunited

1 6.0

Not joined or working together as a group

How United

fused

4.1

concrescent

• Specialized

9.9

joined

1.9

adjacent

100 3.8

separate

829 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology