Incompatible
[ɪnkəm'pætɪb(ə)l] or [,ɪnkəm'pætəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not compatible; 'incompatible personalities'; 'incompatible colors' .
(adj.) incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification .
(adj.) used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture .
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
(a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
(n.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inconsistent, incongruous, unsuitable, unadapted.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COMPATIBLE]
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Definition
adj. not consistent: contradictory: incapable of existing together in harmony: (pl.) things which cannot coexist.—ns. Incompatibil′ity Incompat′ibleness.—adv. Incompat′ibly.
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Examples
- Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father, and with what she felt for him. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And this is incompatible with closely restricted physical activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Since then both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity, it must lie in something that is neither of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Few monarchs have left us intimate diaries; to be a monarch and to be frank are incompatible feats; monarchy is itself necessarily a pose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- These lines of ambition lay across one another and were mutually incompatible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor would it be entirely incompatible with most of the words overheard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible stairs and fireplaces. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These are incompatible wishes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The round and square figures are incompatible in the same substance at the same time. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No one can once doubt but existence and non-existence destroy each other, and are perfectly incompatible and contrary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I mean that all this business puts us on unnatural terms, with which natural relations are incompatible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He said that the intimate and continued companionship of an acid and a metal was unnatural, and incompatible with the idea of durability and simplicity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the inevitable jangle of these incompatibles the church had become dogmatic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Stanton