Meaning

2 senses
  1. A substance that provides cohesion

  2. A device used to establish cohesion within a text

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Their team is not very cohesive.

    ruУ них не очень сплочённая команда.

    deIhr Team hält nicht gut zusammen.

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  2. A text could be coherent but not cohesive, and vice versa.

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  3. None of those thoughts are cohesive nor do they make sense independently.

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  4. The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.

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  5. Academic writing should be cohesive.

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Origin

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.

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Forms

plural: cohesives
Singularcohesive
Pluralcohesives

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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