coherent
Something coherent is logical and clear. "I told you if you didn't do your homework you couldn't watch TV. You didn't do your homework so you can't watch TV." This is a coherent argument (and annoying as well).
The thing about such coherent arguments, as your Mom well knows, is that they are also easily and clearly understood. If someone speaks coherently, they are speaking clearly and lucidly. A slight variation on the meaning comes in the sense of something that is united clearly as a whole and a recognizable entity. You might say, for example, that New York City is a "culturally coherent region" within the United States.
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marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts“a coherent argument”
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synonyms:
consistent, logical, ordered
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seamless
perfectly consistent and coherent
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logical
capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
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rational
consistent with or based on or using reason
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Antonyms:
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incoherent
without logical or meaningful connection
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confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected
lacking orderly continuity
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fuzzy
confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
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illogical, unlogical
lacking in correct logical relation
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irrational
not consistent with or using reason
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seamless
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(physics) of waves having a constant phase relation
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Antonyms:
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incoherent
(physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation
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incoherent
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capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
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sticking together
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When war destroys their life in Syria, Nuri Ibrahim tries to hold onto hope that he and his grieving wife will survive the dangerous journey to a new home.
When people mysteriously disappear and her mother is attacked by an infectious patient, sixteen-year-old Raquel Celestin and her friends start an investigation that leads them to a dangerous game in the tunnels of the Bronx.
Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores is a queer Mexican-American girl who navigates Catholic school and first love while learning to be authentic to herself.
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