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Incompatible

Incompatible Meaning & Definition
Incompatible Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Incompatible?

[adj] not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
[adj] (computers) 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
[adj] not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
[adj] not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior"
[adj] not compatible with other facts
[adj] used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
[adj] not easy to combine harmoniously
[adj] of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Incompatible: antagonistic | antonymous | clashing | contradictory | contrastive | disagreeable | discrepant | ill-sorted | immiscible | inappropriate | incongruous | inconsistent | mismated | mutually exclusive | out or keeping(p) | uncongenial | unfitting | unmixable | unsuited | unsympathetic

Related Terms | Find terms related to Incompatible: abnormal | absurd | anomalous | antagonistic | antipathetic | antithetic | assorted | at cross-purposes | at loggerheads | at odds | at variance | at war | autistic | bashful | chill | chilly | clashing | close | cold | conflicting | contradictory | contrary | contrasted | contrasting | cool | cranky | cross | departing | deviating | deviative | different | differentiated | differing | disaccordant | disagreeable | disagreeing | disconsonant | discordant | discrepant | discrete | discriminated | disharmonious | disjoined | disparate | disproportionate | dissident | dissimilar | dissociable | dissonant | distinct | distinguished | divergent | diverging | divers | diverse | diversified | frosty | grating | heterogeneous | hostile | icy | immiscible | in disagreement | inaccordant | incoherent | incommensurable | incommensurate | incongruous | inconsequent | inconsistent | inconsonant | inharmonious | inhospitable | inimical | insociable | irreconcilable | jangling | jarring | many | mismatched | mopey | mopish | morose | motley | multifarious | negative | nongregarious | opposed | opposite | out of accord | out of proportion | out of whack | oxymoronic | paradoxical | poles apart | poles asunder | repugnant | self-contained | self-contradictory | self-sufficient | separate | separated | several | snug | socially incompatible | strained | sullen | tense | unamiable | unamicable | unclubbable | uncommunicative | uncompanionable | unconformable | uncongenial | uncordial | unequal | unfriendly | ungenial | unharmonious | unlike | unsociable | unsocial | unsuited | variant | varied | variegated | various | varying | widely apart | worlds apart

See Also | different | incompatible | inharmonious | mismatched | unfriendly | unharmonious

Incompatible In Webster's Dictionary

\In`com*pat"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + compatible: cf. F. incompatible.] [It was formerly sometimes written {incompetible}.] 1. 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 strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. --Southey. 2. (Chem.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. {Incompatible terms} (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought. Syn: Inconsistent; incongruous; dissimilar; irreconcilable; unsuitable; disagreeing; inharmonious; discordant; repugnant; contradictory. See {Inconsistent}.
\In`com*pat"i*ble\, n. (Med. & Chem.) 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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