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consistently

UK/kənˈsɪstəntli/US/kənˈsɪstəntli/
adverbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,747 of 15,258leans written

Consistently means in the same way every time. Consistently good, performs consistently, consistently applied.

It is praise about reliability rather than about quality, and consistently good is a higher compliment than occasionally excellent in most work. Applied to rules it means without exception, which is what fairness requires.

Definitions of consistently

  1. 1adverbconsistentlyIn the same way every time.B2+

    “She has consistently scored top marks in maths throughout the year.”

consistently is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    consistens

  2. English

    consistent

  3. English, today

    consistently

Built from

  • cōnsistō · Latin — to agree with; to continue
  • sistō · Latin — to cause to stand; to place, set
  • *steh₂- · Proto-Indo-European — to stand (up)

From consistent + -ly. consistent Borrowed from Latin consistens. Latin consistens, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)). by surface analysis, consist + -ent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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consistently in the wild

  • People who consistently display benignly eccentric behavior are labeled as "eccentrics".

    Eccentricity (behavior)

  • OptimFROG is optimized for high compression (small file sizes) at the expense of encoding and decoding speed, and consistently measures among the highest compressing lossless codecs.

    OptimFROG

  • Social trends such as obesity rates within the country have consistently risen since the 1970s, while smoking rates have consistently decreased since then.

    Health in the United Kingdom

  • Power plants with an output consistently near their nameplate capacity have a high capacity factor.

    Nameplate capacity

  • Speakers consistently report that their ancestors came from New Ireland.

    Taulil–Butam languages

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the sistō family

existexistence

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