Synonyms for cohesive
koʊˈhi sɪvco·he·sive

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1. cohesive

   Adhesive is the scientific, sticking or sticky the popular word. That which is adhesive tends to join itself to the surface of any other body with which it is placed in contact; cohesive expresses the tendency of particles of the same substance to hold together. Polished plate glass is not adhesive, but such plates packed together are intensely cohesive. An adhesive plaster is in popular language a sticking-plaster. Sticky expresses a more limited, and generally annoying, degree of the same quality. Glutinous, gummy, viscid, and viscous are applied to fluid or semi-fluid substances, as pitch or tar.

   Synonyms:
   adhesive, glutinous, gummy, sticking, sticky, viscid, viscous

   Antonyms:
   free, inadhesive, loose, separable

   Preposition:
   The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.

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1. cohesiveadjective

   causing cohesion

   "a cohesive agent"

   Antonyms:
   divided, nonadhesive

2. cohesiveadjective

   cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated

   "a cohesive organization"

   Antonyms:
   nonadhesive, divided

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1. List of paraphrases for "cohesive":

   coherent, consistent, cohesion, homogeneous, close-knit, cohesiveness, homogenous

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1. Randal Stewart:

   What we saw starting to happen shortly after her arrival was a systematic dismantling of a cohesive and productive organization. There was cohesion in the office and no one was afraid to do their jobs.

2. Julie Ertz:

   They're a great team, they're really cohesive, they're bought into what they do, I've nothing but great things to say about the way that they play, we knew we were going to have to defend but it was really about staying together and anchoring in when needed.

3. Fort Drum:

   We will continue to reduce the challenges linked to suicide through continued leader engagement, peer intervention and focusing on building cohesive teams.

4. Paul Stanley:

   The great thing about doing KISS meets Scooby Doo is because of the length of it, as opposed to just a short, animated piece, we really got a chance to flesh it out, and we had people working who wanted a cohesive script. Whereas, I have to say with 'KISS Meets the Phantom,' to this day, I am not sure what that's about. But this holds together really well, and it is very true to Scooby-Doo and very true to us.

5. Kellyanne Conway:

   I just think it’s going to come down to one man’s decision, it’s very important to have a cohesive Cabinet.