Incongruous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking in harmony; incompatible: a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation.
  • adj. Not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent: a plan incongruous with reason.
  • adj. Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate: incongruous behavior.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not congruous; incapable of reciprocally fitting and agreeing; unsuited or unsuitable; inharmonious.
  • Consisting of inappropriate parts, or of parts not fitly put together; disjointed: as, an incongruous story.
  • Synonyms Inconsistent, etc. (see incompatible), unsuitable, unsuited, unfit, inappropriate, ill-matched, out of keeping.
  • In the theory of numbers, not congruent: thus, 7 and 8 are incongruous to the modulus 3, giving different remainders when divided by the modulus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
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