Words that rhyme with concurrent

  • abhorrent
    adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive]
  • aspirant
    adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn: aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful] n 1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee]
  • crosscurrent
    n 1: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent] 2: actions counter to the main group activity; "political crosscurrents disrupted the conference" [syn: countercurrent, crosscurrent]
  • currant
    n 1: any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams 2: any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants [syn: currant, currant bush] 3: small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking
  • current
    adj 1: occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" [ant: noncurrent] n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" [syn: current, electric current] 2: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current, stream] 3: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow, current]
  • deterrent
    adj 1: tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices" n 1: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap]
  • recurrent
    adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated]
  • spirant
    adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, fricative, spirant]
  • tyrant
    n 1: a cruel and oppressive dictator [syn: tyrant, autocrat, despot] 2: in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it 3: any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
  • undercurrent
    n 1: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent] 2: a current below the surface of a fluid [syn: undertide, undercurrent]
  • warrant
    n 1: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts 2: a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities" [syn: warrant, stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant] 3: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur] 4: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty] v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant] 2: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
  • aren't
  • blackcurrant
  • incurrent
  • learnt
  • photocurrent
  • redcurrant
  • weren't
  • arant
  • arent
  • farrant
  • garant
  • parrent
  • tarrant
  • intercurrent
  • insurant
  • decurrent
  • excurrent
  • percurrent
  • subcurrent
  • transcurrent

See also concurrent definition and concurrent synonyms