incongruousadj.
/ɪnˈkɒŋɡruːəs/ Not congruous; the opposite of congruous.† 4. Grammar. Violating the rules of grammatical agreement; grammatically incorrect. Obsolete.† 5. Geometry. Not coinciding when superposed.
1. Disagreeing in character or qualities; not corresponding; out of keeping; disaccordant, inconsistent, inharmonious, unsuited. Const. with, to.Often with mixture of sense 2, stress being laid upon the inappropriateness or absurdity resulting from the want of correspondence.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective]
discordablea1393
discordanta1393
discordinga1398
incongruea1398
inconvenient1398
unaccording1398
discordc1415
disagreeablea1425
inconsutilec1450
unaccordanta1470
dissonant1490
disaccordanta1513
disagreeing?1526
incongruent1531
wide1531
unconsonant1535
dissonate1548
dissenting1550
dissident?c1550
unagreeable?1550
disconformc1554
discrepant1556
absonant1564
dissentany1586
disconsorted1589
disagreed1596
discordous1597
discordious1598
incorrespondent1599
dissentious1605
untunable1605
incongruous1611
unagreeing1611
unanswerable1611
eccentric1612
unconcurrent1613
disconsonant1614
dissentaneous1623
dissorting1631
uncorrespondent1631
discorrespondent1635
incoincident1636
unconcurring1639
eccentrical1640
unatonable1645
incompliant1647
pluranimous1650
disconformeda1658
inagreeable1657
inconsonant1658
disharmonious1659
inconcinn1660
discongruous1663
unharmonious1667
discoherent1675
uncongruous1709
inharmonious1749
immutual1768
unharmonized1803
unconsentaneous1818
inaccordant1822
uncorresponding1826
unharmonizing1851
non-concurring1866
discordful1867
disharmonic1887
non-concurrent1907
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Incongrue, incongruous, vnagreeing.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 17 All the Ecclesiastical glue, that Liturgy, or Laymen can compound, is not able to soder up two such incongruous natures into the one flesh of a true beseeming Mariage.
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 7 If its Shape were incongruous to that of the cavity of the Lock, it would be unfit to be us'd as a Key.
1695 J. Humfrey Mediocria (ed. 2) 53 This is a Scheme I look on as incongruous with free reason.
1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle i. i. 8 O Stupidity unparalleled, incongruous to all sense and breeding!
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 2 The cart-way of the village divides..two very incongruous soils.
1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 191 Here are two new measures of capacity altogether incongruous to the new system.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 203 The number of stamens is incongruous with the lobes of the corolla.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xii. 202 There entered a figure strangely incongruous with the current of their thoughts.
2. Disagreeing or inconsistent with the circumstances or requirements of the case, or with what is reasonable or becoming; unbecoming, unsuitable, inappropriate, absurd, out of place.
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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
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Incongruous, absurd, disagreeable.
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 173 This..is no such incongruous, ridiculous nouell distinction.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xxii. 85 As if a man should be acquitted and yet punished for the same crime, at the same Court, then which nothing is more foolish or incongruous.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 16 I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common Temper of Mankind is.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 548 It would be incongruous and absurd, to have the head of the church of one faith, and the members of another.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 267 Most miserable, most incongruous wretch! Darest thou spurn thy life, the boon of God?
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 106 The effect was slightly incongruous.
3. Having parts or elements not agreeing with each other; involving inconsistency or disagreement; not self-consistent; incoherent.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > inconsistent or contradictory
repugnantc1443
contradictory1533
disproportioneda1616
unconsistent1638
inconstant1642
inconsistent1646
inconsistent1656
incongruous1658
inconsisting1658
inconsistible1660
crimp1712
1658 T. Wall Comment on Times (new ed.) 43 Their confused and incongruous intermixture of the different parts of prayer.
a1797 H. Walpole Walpoliana (1799) I. 110 Surely of all human characters a fanatic philosopher is the most incongruous, and of course the most truly ludicrous.
1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope v. 135 The consequent alterations make the hero of the poem a thoroughly incongruous figure.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in grammar
incongruous1616
ungrammatical1654
ingrammatical1672
ungrammatic1806
grammarless1823
unsyntactical1865
asyntactic1879
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Incongruous, against rule of Grammar.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity (new ed.) 359 It is incongruous to say, (vos amas, vos legis,) that is (you lov'st, you readest,) speaking to one.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] > of geometrical relation > (capable of) being exactly superposed > not coinciding
incongruous1656
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 132 Of Crooked Magnitudes, some are Congruous, that is, are coincident when they are applyed to one another; others are Incongruous.
6. Theory of Numbers. Of two numbers: Not congruent; giving different remainders when divided by the modulus: see congruent adj. 5.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Incongruous Numbers.
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