Antonyms for coherent
koʊˈhɪər ənt, -ˈhɛr-co·her·ent

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1. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

2. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

3. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

4. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

5. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

6. coherentadjective

   Antonyms:
   incoherent

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1. coherent

   Antonyms:
   inconsecutive, rambling, disunited, inconsistent, discursive, loose, silly, illogical, aberrant

   Synonyms:
   consecutive, consistent, complete, sensible, compact, logical, close

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1. coherent, consistent, logical, orderedadjective

   marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts

   "a coherent argument"

   Antonyms:
   incoherent, scattered, disjointed, fuzzy, disconnected, unconnected, irrational, garbled, disordered, nonadhesive, confused, illogical

   Synonyms:
   consistent, ordered, uniform, tenacious, lucid, logical, legitimate, arranged, reproducible

2. coherent, logical, lucidadjective

   capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

   "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"

   Antonyms:
   scattered, confused, nonadhesive, garbled, irrational, disordered, disjointed, illogical, unconnected, incoherent, fuzzy, disconnected

   Synonyms:
   consistent, ordered, transparent, limpid, tenacious, lucid, logical, legitimate, pellucid, luculent, crystal clear, perspicuous, crystalline

3. coherentadjective

   (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation

   Antonyms:
   fuzzy, irrational, unconnected, disjointed, illogical, scattered, incoherent, confused, nonadhesive, garbled, disordered, disconnected

   Synonyms:
   ordered, tenacious, logical, lucid, consistent

4. coherent, tenaciousadjective

   sticking together

   "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"

   Antonyms:
   irrational, disconnected, unconnected, fuzzy, scattered, disordered, disjointed, incoherent, confused, illogical, garbled, nonadhesive

   Synonyms:
   persistent, consistent, ordered, long, dour, recollective, lucid, logical, tenacious, retentive, unyielding, dogged, pertinacious

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1. coherentnoun

   Synonyms:
   consistent, logical

How to use coherent in a sentence?

1. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny:

   In 2016, the people will have a clear choice: between stable and coherent government; or chaos and instability.

2. Norman Baxter:

   Attacks still happen, but they really have been reduced to small groups of effectively organized crime gangs. They don’t have anything like the weapons or reach that the IRA did. Nor do they have a coherent ideology. They might still be active, but the idea they could carry out anything on the scale of the worst days is just unimaginable now.

3. Antonio Guterres:

   These people are forced to go on boats, they pay 4,000 or 5,000 euros and they die in these desperate circumstances. This doesn't make sense, we need to have a coherent response to this situation, and in my opinion, only Europe as a whole, based on solidarity, can give that response.

4. Philip Hammond:

   I'm not sure there's a majority in parliament in support of a second referendum, many people will be strongly opposed to it, but it's a coherent proposition and it deserves to be considered along with the other proposals.

5. Anne Schuchat:

   We’re all less safe when there’s not the national amassing of this information in a timely and coherent way.

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