accompanying; attendant
Origin of concomitant
from Late Latin concomitans: see concomitance an accompanying or attendant condition, circumstance, or thing
adjective
- The definition of concomitant is something that goes naturally together or is associated with something else.
An example of concomitant is a large salary with a good job.
- Concomitant is defined as something that usually happens along with, or right after, another event.
An example of concomitant is getting fired after you tell off your boss.
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concomitant
adjective
Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant: poverty and its concomitant social problems. See Synonyms at contemporary.
noun
One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.
Origin of concomitant
Late Latin concomitāns concomitant- present participle of concomitārī to accompany Latin com- com- Latin comitārī to accompany ( from comes comit- companion ; see ei- in Indo-European roots.)Related Forms:
- con·com′i·tant·ly
adverb
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Noun
(plural concomitants)
- Something happening or existing at the same time.
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Sentence Examples
- The fast was a suitable concomitant of that contrition which befitted the occasion.
- Such gas is a more or less general concomitant of oil all through the petroleum-bearing areas of the country.
- It has been argued that All-Fatherism is an advance, conditioned by coastal influences - more rain and more food - concomitant with a social advance to individual marriage, and reckoning of kin in the male line.
- Corruption is the frequent concomitant of privilege, and thus the town councils often connived for a price at the presence in their midst of Jews whose admission was illegal.
- The ministration to memory, aided by registering and arranging the data, of observation and experiment in tables of instances of agreement, difference and concomitant variations.
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