单词	incongruously
释义	incongruousin‧con‧gru‧ous /ɪnˈkɒŋɡruəs $ -ˈkɑːŋ-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He was dressed in a three-piece suit with an incongruous tie shaped like a fish. It seemed incongruous having a dance-band at the funeral. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All because of this burning, incongruous passion. Amid this busy prosperity it was curiously incongruous, unlike in Tunis or Cairo. Except that it seemed incongruous and yet traditional - we are overloaded with tradition. Four storeys high, square and turreted with pepper-pot towers; romantic, unexpected, incongruous. It depends upon the incongruous, perceiving what is out of place - which is usually us! Some seem flower-like yet when you touch them they have the incongruous scratch of stone. Then I noticed a most incongruous thing. We piled into its crowded bar, incongruous among rough seagoing types, and found ourselves a table by the window. Thesaurus THESAURUS► unsuitable/not suitable not having the right qualities for a particular person, purpose, or situation: · These toys are not suitable for children under 3.· The job was considered unsuitable for women.· Some dogs end up in totally unsuitable homes. ► not appropriate/inappropriate not suitable for a particular situation or purpose – used especially about someone’s behaviour or language: · Slang is not appropriate in an academic essay.· Never reward inappropriate behaviour.· It would not be appropriate for us to comment at this stage. ► wrong not the right thing or person for a particular job or purpose: · You’re using the wrong spoon – this is the soup spoon.· She was simply the wrong person for the job. ► out of place [not before noun] not looking or seeming suitable for that place or situation: · The horse drawn carriage looks a little out of place among the busy traffic.· At first I felt a bit out of place. ► incompatible two ideas or things that are incompatible cannot exist or be done together. Two people who are incompatible are unlikely to have a successful relationship, because they have very different characters, beliefs etc: · He considered the role of wife and mother to be incompatible with a career.· Why do totally incompatible people get married? ► incongruous formal seeming strange and unsuitable, often in a humorous way, because of being unexpected in a particular situation or very different from its surroundings: · It seemed incongruous having a dance-band at the funeral.· He was dressed in a three-piece suit with an incongruous tie shaped like a fish. ► inconvenient an inconvenient place or time is not suitable and causes problems for you: · He always seems to call at inconvenient times.· The new station is inconvenient to pedestrians, because it is a long walk from the centre of town. ► unfit not suitable to be used for something, or not suitable to do something: · The boat is not only unfit to live in but is actually unsafe.· The meat was declared unfit for human consumption (=not suitable to eat).· He claims she is an unfit mother.· A jury decided Pryse-Jones was unfit to stand trial at court because of his mental illness.· The house was unfit for human habitation (=not suitable to live in). Longman Language Activatorwhen something is not suitable for a place or situation► be/seem/look out of place if something is out of place , it seems or looks very different from the other things around it, and therefore seems unsuitable for that particular place or situation: · Extremely informal language is out of place in an academic essay.· The Christmas decorations looked somehow out of place in Waikiki. ► be out of keeping/not be in keeping to not seem right or suitable when seen together with something else that is very different in style or character: · Serious poetry published in newspapers always seems slightly out of keeping.be out of keeping/not be in keeping with: · Those new windows are not really in keeping with the style of the house.· The cheerful cover of the diary was out of keeping with the thoughts I was recording inside. ► incongruous something that is incongruous seems strange and unsuitable, often in a humorous way, because it is so unexpected in a particular situation, so different from its surroundings etc: · It seemed incongruous having a dance-band at the funeral.· He was dressed in a three-piece suit with an incongruous tie shaped like a fish. strange, unexpected, or unsuitable in a particular situation:  The new theatre looks utterly incongruous in its setting.—incongruously adverb
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