What is another word for conformable?

Pronunciation: [kənfˈɔːməbə͡l] (IPA)

Conformable is often used to describe something that fits or adapts to a particular standard or requirement. Synonyms include compliant, adaptable, flexible, malleable, and pliable. These words all suggest that something can adjust easily to certain circumstances or expectations. Other synonyms for conformable include conformist, obedient, and docile, which carry more negative connotations and imply a lack of independence. In contrast, synonyms such as congruent, fitting, consistent, and compatible suggest a positive alignment or harmony. Ultimately, the choice of synonym depends on the context and intended meaning, but knowing multiple options can help to add variety and precision to one's language.

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What are the hypernyms for Conformable?

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What are the opposite words for conformable?

The word "conformable" means to be in agreement with or compliant to a certain standard or norm. Some antonyms for "conformable" could be words like rebel, dissenting or non-conformist. These words describe people or things that do not follow standard practices or societal norms. Other antonyms could be words like independent or unique, which describe something that stands out or is different from the norm. Another set of antonyms could be words like unruly, disorderly or disobedient, which indicate a lack of obedience or inability to adhere to established standards. Overall, antonyms for "conformable" describe words and phrases that represent the opposite of conforming or compliance.

Usage examples for Conformable

She had intended to get back to church, conformable to Mary's programme, which was to start in St. James, and go in rotation to all the great churches and hear the choirs; but it happened that on this first Sunday there was a fine west wind, and the three-masters were setting sail to the north close inshore, and when Rose found she could sit on the park benches and see those mighty birds sail by she was content to do that and nothing more.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
If, Lovelace, thou laughest at me, thy ridicule will be more conformable to thy actions than to thy belief.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
Our view of the matter accordingly was, that some fifteen or twenty thousand men would be forthwith embarked on board of ship and transported to the other side of the Atlantic; that the war would there be carried on with a vigour conformable to the dignity and resources of the country which waged it; and that no mention of peace would be made till our general should be in a situation to dictate its conditions in the enemy's capital.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig

Famous quotes with Conformable

  • The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
    Blaise Pascal
  • Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.
    Alexander Hamilton
  • Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
    Baron d'Holbach
  • For my own part, I may desire in general to be other than I am; I may condemn and dislike my whole form, and beg of Almighty God for an entire reformation, and that He will please to pardon my natural infirmity: but I ought not to call this repentance, methinks, no more than the being dissatisfied that I am not an angel or Cato. My actions are regular, and conformable to what I am and to my condition; I can do no better; and repentance does not properly touch things that are not in our power; sorrow does.. I imagine an infinite number of natures more elevated and regular than mine; and yet I do not for all that improve my faculties, no more than my arm or will grow more strong and vigorous for conceiving those of another to be so.
    Michel de Montaigne
  • Since it is hardly likely that contemporary critics seriously mean to bar prose narratives that are unrealistic from the domain of literature, one suspects that a special standard is being applied to sexual themes. … There is nothing conclusive in the well-known fact that most men and women fall short of the sexual prowess that people in pornography are represented as enjoying; that the size of organs, number and duration of orgasms, variety and feasibility of sexual powers, and amount of sexual energy all seem grossly exaggerated. Yes, and the spaceships and the teeming planets depicted in science-fiction novels don’t exist either. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography or science-fiction from being literature. … The materials of the pornographic books that count as literature are, precisely, one of the extreme forms of human consciousness. Undoubtedly, many people would agree that the sexually obsessed consciousness can, in principle, enter into literature as an art form. … But then they usually add a rider to the agreement which effectively nullifies it. They require that the author have the proper “distance” from his obsessions for their rendering to count as literature. Such a standard is sheer hypocrisy, revealing one again that the values commonly applied to pornography are, in the end, those belonging to psychiatry and social affairs rather than to art. (Since Christianity upped that ante and concentrated on sexual behavior as the root of virtue, everything pertaining to sex has been a “special case” in our culture, evoking particularly inconsistent attitudes.) Van Gogh’s paintings retain their status as art even if it seems his manner of painting owed less to a conscious choice of representational means than to his being deranged and actually seeing reality the way he painted it. … What makes a work of pornography part of the history of art rather than of trash is not distance, the superimposition of a consciousness more conformable to that of ordinary reality upon the “deranged consciousness” of the erotically obsessed. Rather, it is the originality, thoroughness, authenticity, and power of that deranged consciousness itself, as incarnated in a work.
    Susan Sontag

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