Incoherent
[ɪnkə(ʊ)'hɪər(ə)nt] or ['ɪnko'hɪrənt]
Definition
(adj.) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; 'felt tongue-tied with embarrassment'; 'incoherent with grief' .
(adj.) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation .
(adj.) without logical or meaningful connection; 'a turgid incoherent presentation' .
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Definition
(a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
(a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Loose, detached, non-adhesive.[2]. Incongruous, inconsistent, inconsequential, without connection.
Typed by Dominic
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unconnected, incongruous, inconsequential, loose
ANT:Coherent, connected,[See COHERENT]
Typed by Gordon
Definition
adj. not connected: loose: incongruous.—n. Incoher′ence want of coherence or connection: incongruity.—adv. Incoher′ently.—n. Incohē′sion.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of incoherency, usually denotes extreme nervousness and excitement through the oppression of changing events.
Checker: Ramona
Examples
- I had many a broken sleep inside the Yarmouth mail, and many an incoherent dream of all these things. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I fancy that the poor fellow murmured some incoherent delirious words, and that she twisted them into this meaningless message. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The rest is all a more or less incoherent dream. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Overton was evidently considerably excited when he sent it, and somewhat incoherent in consequence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her words were an almost incoherent volley of thoughts, so rapidly she spoke. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I was frightened by her vehemence, and imagined some mistake in her incoherent tale; but I no longer hesitated to obey her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The monster continued to utter wild and incoherent self-reproaches. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The terrible story of the conspiracy so obtained was presented in fragments, sadly incoherent in themselves, and widely detached from each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Margaret rather agreed with her that the story was incoherent enough to be like a dream. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Then Theodore, whom you sent on for aid, made his appearance at the barricade, and gasped out some incoherent story. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I did so in broken, incoherent words, for besides the trouble I was in, it frightened me to see her at MY feet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Such an incoherent scrawl I never had known him nor anybody else write before! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The best shorthanders and the holders of good positions are those who can take a lot of rambling, incoherent stuff and make a rattling good speech out of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Ramona