Incongruous
[ɪn'kɒŋgrʊəs] or [ɪn'kɑŋɡruəs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; 'a plan incongruous with reason'; 'incongruous behavior'; 'a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation' .
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Definition
(a.) Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc.
Checked by Gwen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unsuitable, inconsistent, inappropriate, improper, incompatible, incoherent, discrepant, absurd.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONGRUOUS]
Checker: Thomas
Definition
adj. inconsistent: not fitting well together disjointed: unsuitable—also Incon′gruent.—ns. Incongru′ity Incon′gruousness.—adv. Incon′gruously.
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- Of this incongruous family our astonished Amelia found herself all of a sudden a member: with Mrs. O'Dowd as an elder sister. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The effect is as grotesque as it is incongruous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I proposed to be the teacher, or to attend the lessons--obviously incongruous! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman--incongruous even with his habitual foibles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But here again she was undeceived by anomalous and incongruous conduct on the part of Mr Pancks himself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Considering myself sufficiently incongruous on my legal eminence, I have until now suppressed my domestic destiny. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a short time, however, these relics disappear, and the mountain, the valley, and the lake are freed from the incongruous images of the former scene. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typist: Nicholas