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. — marafon

    deIhr Team hält nicht gut zusammen. — Yorwba

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

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

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

  5. Academic writing should be cohesive.

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
cohesive — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto