† incompetibleadj.
Obsolete.
Not competible; not within one's competence or capacity; not properly applicable or suitable to; inappropriate. Sometimes confused with incompatible: see the latter, incompatible adj. 2c.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective]
unkinOE
un-i-feieOE
unbecomelyc1200
amissc1325
wrongousa1350
uncovenablec1374
unsitting1390
undue1398
ungainanda1400
unquemea1400
inconvenientc1400
unlikelyc1405
disconvenienta1425
impertinenta1425
discovenablec1436
unmeetc1440
wrongc1440
unjustc1443
unbehovablec1450
inconvenientc1460
uncordial1488
unmeetly1534
unapt1539
unfit1548
incommodious1553
ungreeing1560
impertinent1565
stravagant1565
unproper1566
improper1570
unhovable1570
unapt1579
unbeseeming1583
unsuitablea1586
unappliable1588
unapt1588
unlikely1590
unfittinga1592
unfitted1592
unsuiting1596
unbefitting1598
unsorted1598
unsuited1598
contrary1600
impair1609
unfitty1613
incompetible1621
incongruous1623
infita1626
uncompetiblea1628
inaccommodatea1657
inapplicable1656
inconcinnate1657
inconcinnous1662
inept1675
unaccommodatea1676
incommode1678
indecorous1681
untoward1682
unapplicable1690
insuitable1692
unsuit1704
malapropos1709
inapt1744
out of place1748
uncongenial1788
unfit-like1796
ungain-like1796
inappropriate1804
unadapted1805
dissuitable1807
dissuited1819
ineligible1828
infelicitous1835
unapropos1840
butt-ended1850
malappropriate1851
ungenial1871
misappropriate1878
unbecoming1893
unappropriate1898
unadjusted1899
offside1910
off-key1943
improbable1958
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes iii. 415 Puffed vp with incomparable and incompetible Titles of Learning.
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 5 For now the Pope was come to that height, as to arrogate to himselfe by his Vicars incompetible honours.
1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 9 Take him as a usurper, and my allegiance is incompetible to him.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. 139 The characters of the New Jerusalem..are very hard to be understood: some of them being incompetible to a terrestrial state, and some of them to a celestial.
Derivatives
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible
incompatibleness1608
incompatibility1611
incompossibility1629
incompetibilitya1660
incoherence1665
incompetibleness1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Incompetibleness, the Condition of a Thing, that will not square or agree with another.
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