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incoherentin‧co‧her‧ent /ˌɪnkəʊˈhɪərənt◂ $ -koʊˈhɪr-/ AWL adjective   - Harris gave rambling, incoherent answers to questions about the case.
- One man was incoherent with grief.
- Rawlings gave rambling, incoherent answers.
- She was clearly very ill, and at times her speech was incoherent.
- But the present, incoherent system does need reform.
- For the first day, she made some sense but by the third day she was totally incoherent.
- He acknowledges that if he finds against Mrs. McLoughlin the law of emotional injury will then be incoherent in principle.
- La Stampa admitted that the supergrass accounts were at times contradictory and incoherent.
- Last fall, Republicans offered an incoherent critique.
- Muttering something incoherent, he moved away.
- Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.
- This is revealed most tellingly when informants are given a passage that appears incoherent.
difficult or impossible to understand► puzzling a puzzling situation makes you feel confused, because you have tried to understand it or explain it, but you cannot: · The police are investigating the puzzling death of a man found on the freeway.· Alzheimer's disease is one of medicine's most puzzling and feared illnesses.· The fact that many people still do not understand this basic concept is both puzzling and troubling. ► baffling extremely difficult or impossible to understand, and therefore making you feel extremely confused: · To an ordinary person, the legal arguments were baffling.· New evidence has provided a clue to one of the most baffling crimes the police have had to deal with. ► incomprehensible impossible to understand: · His English was incomprehensible.it is incomprehensible that: · It is incomprehensible that a tragedy like this could be joked about.incomprehensible to: · The leaflet was written in jargon that would have been totally incomprehensible to anyone outside the profession. ► unintelligible speech or writing that is unintelligible is impossible to understand because it is not clear, simple, or well planned: · Joe muttered something unintelligible, clasping his head in his hands.· Radio transmissions were often cut off or unintelligible. ► incoherent incoherent speech is very difficult to understand, especially because the person who is speaking is drunk, ill, or very angry: · Harris gave rambling, incoherent answers to questions about the case.· She was clearly very ill, and at times her speech was incoherent. ► obscure a statement, joke, or idea that is obscure is very difficult to understand because the meaning is not clear unless it is carefully explained to you: · Best's art is eccentric and obscure.· Publishers would not print his earlier poetry because they felt it was too obscure. nouncoherence ≠ incoherenceadjectivecoherent ≠ incoherentverbcohereadverbcoherently ≠ incoherently 1not expressed or organized clearly, and therefore difficult to understand:  an incoherent over-long action movie He called the policy ‘incoherent and ill thought-out’.2speaking in a way that cannot be understood, because you are drunk, feeling a strong emotion etc: Ben, drunk and incoherent, slumped in a chair.—incoherently adverb: She began to mutter incoherently.—incoherence noun [uncountable] |