concomitant

1. 1.

   an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

   Synonymsaccompanimentattendantco-occurrence

   Broaderhappening

   Narrowerassociatebackground

1. 1.

   occurring with or following as a consequence

   “an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems”

   “snags incidental to the changeover in management”

   “attendant circumstances”

   “the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness”

   “the ensuant response to his appeal”

   “the resultant savings were considerable”

   “collateral target damage from a bombing run”

   Synonymsattendantconsequentaccompanyingincidentalensuantresultantsequentcollateral

   Similarsubsequent

Other forms of concomitant

plural

concomitants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about concomitant

What does concomitant mean?

concomitant means "an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concomitant?

concomitant has 4 syllables: con-co-mi-tant. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnˈkɑmətənt/.

What is another word for concomitant?

Close synonyms include accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence, attendant, consequent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is concomitant a common word?

concomitant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.