Incongruous

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  • adjective. Lacking in harmony; incompatible.
  • adjective. Not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent.
  • adjective. Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper
  • adjective. two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third; as, twenty and twenty-five are incongruous with respect to four.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  • Word Usage
    "On occasion, however, material, geographical, and emotional distance resulted in incongruous appropriations that were the result of images and meanings randomly and bizarrely associated with each other."
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